More Math – I agree with Mr. Macaulay’s overall position and appreciate the extra numerical information. 

One further refinement (ha ha) to the math: If the 440 kilograms is 60% enriched, i.e. 60% U235, then the total amount of U235 is 264 kg. Further processing would have to remove about 147 kg of U238 from the 440 kg total, to where those 264 kg of U235 make up 90% of the highly enriched bomb-worthy remainder. That brings the stockpile down to 293 kg. At 25 kg per bomb, that’s about 12 nukes rather than 17. –Hugh Hansen

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Calling all Citizen Pundits, whether from the right or the left. 

Here are the week’s prominent issues begging for your comments:

•Another good monthly jobs report combined with persistently high inflation is likely to push the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee to interest rate increases. How will/should President Trump react?

•Do you support the $69.5-billion, three-year immigration enforcement reconciliation bill passed by the Senate Friday and headed for the House of Representatives?

•Are you in favor of the House measure passed Wednesday (with four Republicans joining Democrats) that would call on President Trump to withdraw from the war on Iran? (Be sure to read Pundit-at-Large Stephen Macaulay’s dissection of Trump’s war rhetoric that Iran must not have a nuclear weapon in today’s right column.)

•Do you support the Trump Justice Department’s deal to establish a $1.776-billion Anti-Weaponization Fund with potential payouts to about 1,500 people convicted and pardoned by the president for their violent attacks on the US Capitol and police?

•Should the Senate confirm Todd Blanche as US attorney general?

Email your COMMENTS to editors@thehustings.news and please indicate your political leanings (irrespective of your opinion of a specific issue) in the subject line. --Editors