Iran nuke plant 'would survive attack'

Herald Sun ^ | 22 February 2006

[RonF]

IRAN'S uranium enrichment facilities, built in underground bunkers, would survive any military strikes

How would the people in them do?

[Antoninus]

Only one way to find out....

[DCPatriot]

It would NOT "survive" a nuclear attack...since the location would be contaminated.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

What will they say when they are standing in a big, glass paved, parking lot?
If the entire modern, non-muslim world would just say no to this crap, and mean it, the crap would cease. So long as there is a weak link, it will continue.

[Paul Ross]

"We have obtained our nuclear technology while the target of sanctions and we have not obtained it from the West.

More evidence of the mistakeness of Thomas P.M. Barnett...unequivocal apologist for China's Communist Party.

[Brooklyn Kid]

Don't confuse the Iranian regime with people who give a damn about their citizens.

[Cicero]

We have some bunker busters, certainly.

And I imagine, if necessary, that we could plan to go in, hold the area for a day or so, and send in people to take over the facilities and plant explosives to blow them up. That would be risky, but preferable to letting Iran develop nuclear weapons.

Finally, as we've already seen discussed elsewhere, we can into the country with a full-scale invasion, destroy the facilities, kill the Mullahs and the terrorist brigades, and then leave. We could hardly make things worse than they already are. The years since Jimmuh Carter have shown that Iran is a permanent trouble spot and source of terrorism. It is like a festering boil, and it would not be a bad idea to lance it.

[Brooklyn Kid]

They'll import more. People are expendable. They don't care.

[R.W.Ratikal]

It's hard for me to accept that Iran is developing nuclear capability. Here is a backward country who can't make a paper clip, where central sewer systems are as rare as interstate highways, where the standard of living ranks somewhere between Afghanistan and Nigeria.

When oil was discovered in Iran by an Englishman in the 1800s it took the outside world to get it out of the ground, refine it and distribute it to markets. Even today Iran, and other Middle Eastern oil producers depend on Western technology and workers to get their royalties.

Who is making nukes for Iran? What nation is furnishing nuclear scientists to work in the nuclear facilities and who built them. It certainly wasn't Iran. That is the question we should be seeking an answer.

[SkyDancer]

Isn't there a bunker busting nuclear something or other?

[al baby]

Tagline is a good one kinda bad but good

[F.J. Mitchell]

And the Titanic was unsinkable.

[mmercier]

Three (or a dozen) ground penetrating bunker busters in sequence detonated on target followed by a few MOAB's may not penetrate the facility, but I guarantee the people inside will be hamburger... And they will be replacing components for a decade.

These people have no concept of what they are about to unleash on themselves.

The only question is weather or not the site they claim is secure is in fact the site they are actually using as their primary resource. I bet it is not, nothing but a concrete reinforced bunker full of air used to draw fire.

Like Americas super secret area 51 that everyone knows all about, it is a diversionary site.

[reagan_fanatic]

"The enrichment facilities, particularly Natanz, are located underground and no offensive could damage them," said Gholamreza Aghazadeh

I'm sure when the bombs start dropping, Mr. Aghazadeh will be the first person to stand in them to test his assumption.

[null and void]

A nation state with the financial resources of Iran can accomplish anything it wants.

That it chooses nuclear weapons over basic sanitation speaks volumes about what it considers important.

[PalestrinaGal0317]

"Iran nuke plant 'would survive attack'"

So he says. I don't believe him. How about if we find out once and for all? I promise to believe him if a dozen uranium-tipped bunker busters hit this place and it survives. He promises to spend the rest of his life at the site of the nuke plant. Heh. I could dream.

[null and void]

Isn't there a bunker busting nuclear something or other??I>

Nope. Program canceled.

[mmercier]

I forgot to mention the fact that the first thing we will target will be their electric infrastructure.

Like Iraq, things get bogged down when every sector of the power grid is a smoking heap of ash.

Slows down R&D considerably when data transfer between facilities is via carrier pigeon.

[BenLurkin]

Hope they have enough room down there for all their scientists and their families.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Cicero, are you a student of Roman History. I love it.

As for bombing Iran, can't we just keep dropping bunker busters until we hit the target?