Posted on 02/11/2006 6:57:43 PM PST by FairOpinion
Aren't our Stealth bombers there already?
I hope you don't place any bets on that
That is what my husband thinks it is: Fair Warning.
I was gonna say: Clinton! heck, what about Carter?
I'm thinking this is another Cuban Missle Crisis in the making and I still vividly remember #1.
My idea, of an ideal situation, is to find out when they are going to test, in advance, and time it so that we have a nice 20 megaton, ground busrt weapon strike within about 15 minutes of the scheduled test. Then after all the important Iranian scientists, and heads of state, who had assembled to watch the event, were taken by surprise, and wiped out by their accidental miscalculation of the bomb's size. Of course, it would be easy to deny this, especially with relevant satellite imagery, showing them getting ready for their test. This is an op, waiting to happen.
That's a good point. I believe one reason we finally agreed to go along with a test ban is because computer simulations had made actual tests unnecessary.
We should be tracking Iran's investment in supercomputing capacity.
Most people have no idea of the events which will transpire over the next six months.
Yep, but you need to 40 clip magazines to be hot stuff. :)
I'm convinced that people who blow themselves up in the midst of civilian crowds don't have a scruple of moral restraint.
They don't. But comparing that to a country causing its own suicide is something else. Tell me one terrorist leader who has committed a suicide bombing. Right now Iran is talking tough and I think a good part of it BS. But, you may be right. They may be so irrational as to cause their own extinction.
A few years? I think all this talk could spook them into going "nuclear" sooner than we think.
I believe that Iran already has a few nukes in storage; probably provided courtesy of North Korea.
Roosevelt is in the Persian Gulf.
I doubt these facilities can be destroyed by conventional bunker busters. to be honest, I don't think we are going to attack iran - too many consequences, it would be a huge conflagration, economic impact from the loss of gulf oil would be massive, iraq would get much worse right at the time when its getting better, we need 500K troops in the region at a minimum, etc.
now, if we could assist in an "accident" of some kind occurring here.....
Simply a lie.
There WAS another option. That was to get Russia to stop building the damn nuke facilities.
Bush did nothing serious to stop Russia. Clinton did nothing to stop Russia. Don't let anybody say we ran out of options. We were just to wimpish to get Russia to stop the develpment and construction of Iran's capability.
Its not necessary to have nuke reactors (from the Russians)to build an atomic bomb. All that's needed is uranium ore (which Iran has natively) and the ability to enrich this ore, to the point of about 20%. U-235 is needed, and is rather a rare portion of all the uranium found, and when it is being enrivhed, it also needs to be seperated from the other isotopes of uranium. The russians didn't give the iranians this technology, it appears that A.Q. Khan did, and the euroweenies sold the iranians all the advanced hardware they needed to build the centrifuges, and other necessary items, such that the iranians now have a native ability to build all the centrifuges they need. The Iranians have had a nice cover, all along, thanks to the RUssians, though, as enriched uranium is necessary to fuel the reactor the RUssians are building for them. All along, Iran has maintained they are only building enrighment facilities for their reactors, when anyone with half a brain knows thats a lie. The russians have enabled them, to have plausible deniability, however. The russians are also helping them build heavy water plants, a necessary step, for the iranians to build plutonium weapons, which are many times more powerful than the atomic weapons the iranians are close to having. The atomic bombs the iranians are preparing t build will look like pop guns compared to plutonium weapons. One plutonium based weapon will totally make israel uninhabitable for centuries, whereas, it will take many atomic weapons to achieve the same effect. The real problem is that the knowledge is out there, to build nukes. Anyone with the resources and time, is capable of fielding a small atomic weapon, its a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in, and it will probably be very tumultuous in the coming decades, as non-state actors become capable of fielding advanced bio-weapons, as well as small nukes. Heck, the Iranians probably have enough uranium to currently build dozens of dirty nukes at this point, which are quite nasty little items, if smuggled into major cities and detonated.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Russia and china and N.Korea who got the info from pakistan which leads back to russia.
A dangerous game these ruskies play.
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