How Iran Is Preparing to Deal with Nuclear Fallout from a US Strike
Summary
Iranian state media published guidance on sheltering and avoiding radioactive contamination in response to a possible nuclear attack. The guidance appeared amid online speculation about a U.S. nuclear strike, though President Donald Trump said he did not need nuclear weapons, and the article reports no confirmed U.S. plan to use them.Key Facts
- Iran’s official news agency published the guidance on October 28 as part of the country’s annual Passive Defense Week.
- The report included an approximately eight-minute video about the estimated effects of a 15-kiloton nuclear device detonated underground.
- Pickaxe Mountain is in the Karkas Mountains in Isfahan, about a mile south of the Natanz nuclear complex.
- Tucker Carlson claimed in an X post that Trump was being pressured by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to consider nuclear weapons against Iran.
- Trump told Politico on Tuesday, “I don’t need it,” referring to nuclear weapons against Iran.
- Iran’s National Organization of Passive Defense handles preparation for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.
- Security analyst Alireza Taghavinia said Iran’s military institutions have units for countering such attacks and cited Iran’s experience with chemical weapons used during the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War.
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