Originally Posted by
OpieTaylor
Would it be reasonable to think this means the centrifuges were destroyed?
Fairly reasonable to believe some enriched material was evacuated, and this statement is still 100% true.
Maybe “throughly yanked” is an incorrect paraphrase designed to overstate a fact, in order to embarrass the success of the actual facts.
Yes they could have waited until they built another centrifuge, or enriched material further but that doesn’t also mean destroying it would be easier at a future date.
As part of the debate last summer, people mentioned to the administration that there was trucking activity at the site in the weeks leading up to the bombing and suggested most of the material had been relocated. The administration attacked the reporters who dared suggest that.
Hence the release above.