One wonders where these people are going to be "evacuated" to? I mean most places with a large station able to take lots of incoming passengers are going to be cities and large towns which might well be on the target list anyway. Unless the plan is to dump people at Altnabreac or somewhere equally remote. But then how do you shelter, feed and look after lots of people suddenly dumped in a remote place?
For some years I've been of the opinion that the best thing personally and for my family should we end up in such a situation is to head towards a likely ground zero and await vaporisation. I'm not convinced life afterwards would be particularly enjoyable or worth living, and the response to the current comparatively mild crisis has strengthened that feeling.
Quite possible if they've managed to enrich enough uranium. A uranium bomb is actually very simple to put together once you've managed to enrich the material (which is the relatively difficult part). Plutonium bombs are much more difficult to design and assemble. The Trinity test was a plutonium device, then used successfully at Nagasaki. The Hiroshima bomb was a uranium device, and that attack was the first time it was fired because the physicists and engineers were absolutely certain it would work as intended.
I don't think the Iranian can have any thermonuclear devices - there's some secret sauce required there to make the designs work.
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