{"id":9844,"date":"2025-07-01T22:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9844"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:22:57","slug":"what-does-it-take-to-make-a-nuclear-weapon-podcast-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9844","title":{"rendered":"What does it take to make a nuclear weapon? \u2013 podcast | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In an interview last weekend, Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN said his country\u2019s nuclear enrichment \u2018will never stop\u2019 because it is permitted for \u2018peaceful energy\u2019 purposes. It is the latest development in an escalation of tensions over Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, which erupted when Israel targeted the country\u2019s nuclear facilities in June. To understand why enrichment is so important, Madeleine Finlay talks to Robin Grimes, professor of materials physics at Imperial College London. He explains what goes into creating a nuclear weapon, and why getting to the stage of weaponisation is so difficult<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview last weekend, Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN said his country\u2019s nuclear enrichment \u2018will never stop\u2019 because it is permitted for \u2018peaceful energy\u2019 purposes. It is the latest development in an escalation of tensions over Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, which erupted when Israel targeted the country\u2019s nuclear facilities in June. To understand why enrichment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[220,515,516,2449],"class_list":{"0":"post-9844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-nuclear","9":"tag-podcast","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-weapon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}