Posted on 06/10/2007 7:28:15 AM PDT by Fennie
Yay.
Iran was months away for INTERNALLY made domestic variety of nuclear weapons as far as technological capability is concerned.
They already have this capability completed, however they had problems with the centrifuge cascades (some of it aided by deceptive centrifuges sold to them as a black ops).
The “set back” may have been overcome and they could be in full production swing (not clear). Which would mean they could be producing home made bombs by November of 2007. One or two only per year for now.
For various reasons both sides of the conflict prefered not to acknowledge this and allowed old information to remain in place.
The six to eight nuclear warheads - installed on Shahab missiles and operationally fully functional both as to delivery and to nuclear bomb aspects are not domestic production but imported (purchased) fission material mostly from Ukraine and combined by North Korea into viable nose cones for the Shahab missiles built by Iran.
Iran wanted to manufacture at least about five to ten bombs a year in order to quickly build up a reserve of better bombs on the new long range North Korean missiles they have negotiated in the last few days to purchase from North Korea to better reach Western Europe.
Currently Iran CAN deliver some half a dozen mid-range missiles with nuclear warheads but once launched, they have nothing with which to continue a nuclear attack or use as threat leverage.
Thus, yes they have acquired - not manufactured - some six to eight nuclear weapons. Mass media ignores these and focuses on nukes Iran will build domestically and that estimate varies wildly with the IAEA running interference against the truth or accurate details coming out and putting out disinformation.
Hope this clarifies things.
I hope we do...and we need to take out all of their military capabiltiies and help their freedom loving citizens rise up and take back their country. Seems like it would be much easier with Iran since they already lived under a government that had alot more freedom than they now have. And then we will have the added benefit of stopping alot of the bombings in Iraq that is being done by Iranian agents.
Thanks for the warning, Iran. If you force us to hit your nuclear facilities, we now know the importance of hitting everything else you have at the same time.
I was wondering how many would continue to spell beach, beech, before someone spoke up.
I think he meant the other beech.
Sounds like it’s time to get it on.
LOL! “fiend”. I totally missed that one.
The Sona beech, huh? ;-)
What do they have against Texas amd Louisiana?
My wife is an American citizen, but was born in China. I’m very proud of her. She did everything legally. Her English is better than most people’s, but when I spot a mistake in grammar or spelling, she demands that I correct her. I guess this makes me more aware of misspellings and typos. But I got two years of laughs by telling her how to completely mispronounce asparagus!
Sounds like you are a very lucky man Doc, married to a very nice Lady.
I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes though when payback time comes for that asparagus pronunciation deception is revealed. ;-)
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