Satellites are great things. We use satellite data when setting a destination on our smartphones for a Sunday drive. We use satellites to communicate, the cable and broadcast networks use them to spread information. And, our intelligence services use satellites to keep an eye on what the bad guys are up to.

Bad guys like Iran. On Thursday, Fox News revealed some satellite imagery of a formerly secret Iranian nuclear facility.

Fox News has exclusively obtained satellite imagery revealing what an opposition group says is a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear weapons facility – raising fresh concerns amid ongoing negotiations between Tehran and the Trump administration.

The newly identified site, located in Iran’s Semnan Province, is far from the regime's already-known nuclear facilities. According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), intelligence gathered from sources inside the country points to a sprawling compound covering nearly 2,500 acres.

Code-named the "Rainbow Site" by Iranian officials, the facility has reportedly been in operation for more than a decade, masked as a chemical production company known as Diba Energy Siba.

This is the chilling part:

According to NCRI sources, the primary function of the Rainbow Site is the extraction of tritium – a radioactive isotope used to enhance nuclear weapons. Unlike uranium enrichment, tritium has virtually no peaceful or commercial applications, casting further doubt on Iran’s longstanding claims that its nuclear ambitions are solely for energy or civilian use.

Tritium, we should note, isn't used in producing fission weapons of the sort that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tritium is used to boost fission bombs for a substantial increase in yield, and it is used as a primary fuel source in thermonuclear weapons, or hydrogen bombs.

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This would indicate that Iran is looking to take their nuclear weapons to the next level. Fusion weapons are orders of magnitude more powerful than fission weapons. For example, a 1 megaton fusion warhead, set off in Manhattan, on the Upper East Side, would cause 100 percent fatalities for a .6 mile radius; 100 percent injuries and fatalities for a radius of 4.3 miles, and extensive injuries and deaths for a radius of 12.75 miles. Newark, Hackensack, and Jersey City would be destroyed, along with Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. We're talking millions dead, billions, maybe trillions in property damage. And the people who survive would suffer from hideous burns, radiation poisoning, along with a complete collapse of municipal services. 

And that's just from one bomb, a bomb of the sort that Iran could load into a tramp freighter, sail into New York Harbor one night, and torch it off.

Talks with Iran are still going on, undeterred by the release of these images. 

The revelations come as the Trump administration navigates sensitive negotiations with Tehran. When asked about the U.S. position on whether Iran can maintain a nuclear enrichment program short of weapons development, President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday, "We haven’t made that decision yet. We will, but we haven’t made that decision yet."

Allowing Iran to maintain plants for nuclear enrichment isn't a good idea. Iran is the very definition of a rogue state. If they make a promise, they will break it. If they sign an agreement, they will violate it. If they say they will cease nuclear weapons development, they will be lying. And if they develop a nuclear weapon, they are very likely to use it.

Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

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