Posted on 10/04/2007 9:39:34 AM PDT by Parmenio
Iraq fired 39 SCUD missiles at Israel in 1991. Had any of those been armed with other than HE, WWIII would have begun within an hour.....
There is no doubt in my mind that F15(E) aircraft - loaded with nukes at Sedot Mikha airfield - were sitting in underground hard stands waiting for the go code. Had they been released, not only Baghdad would have been glowing ruin, I suspect that Damascus and Tehran would have been next.
Given that Iran shared a common border with the, then still active, USSR - and a nuclear Pakistan - could have driven a exchange of Nweapons that may have led to a larger conflict.
Thanks for posting.
Some more insight..
Russia’s only going to support Iran for as long as Iran can afford it. Russia doesn’t need oil, as it has tremendous untapped resources of its own. Putin’s job is to keep Russia’s economy going. He’s quite good at that. He’s not going to waste time on countries that don’t/can’t pay. If he feels certain that we’ll attack Iran and take out the current regime, he won’t Russia remembered as the country that kept that regime going, as then the new regime won’t do business with Russia. Plenty of other rich countries to do business with. And plenty of patience for a better time to act.
What would soil samples indicate?
I would think that the samples would be of tailings. Perhaps centrifuge tailings. After the uranium was separated, the non usable residue would be discarded where commandos could get at it.
Cool!
How cool is that?
Operation Orchard? What about “Operation Knock Their D&*K in the Dirt”???
C’mon. If the Israelis admitted it, the North Koreans would deny it.
The facility was right on the Euphrates, so if it’s rained there since, you should be able to get readings all the way down to Iraq.
When I saw this on the History Channel the other day it completely freaked me out. How different my childhood would have been.....
....Israel destroyed the NK warheads .....
Matter can neither be created or destroyed.
How could they destroy bombgrade fissionable material?
Unless stolen, it is still there.
The silence on the episode...comes from Syria who doesn’t want to admit that they had a real nuke missile facility in the works. This would toss the Saudis just one more reason to go out and buy their own nukes from some other 3rd world country.
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My question is this- if you blow up a nuclear device of some kind- isn’t there apt to be some radioactive activity in the area now? Or is that dependent on exactly WHAT the componenets were?
(Not a chemist in this, or any other, lifetime)
“toss the Saudis just one more reason to go out and buy their own nukes”
It’s been whispered for DECADES (As far back as the mid-80’s, I recall) that the Saudi’s already have thier own nuke/nukes.
And that the two largest oilfields were rigged for nuclear destruction should Saddam have invaded.
Well, if they used a nuclear bomb to destroy the building, nobody's going near it. That might be the real reason for the big silence - the first use of nuclear weapons in war since WWII.
I wonder...will we ever know?
An all-important comma here: “In the event, they were not needed...”
I read this as the fighter planes were there to take out any attempt to shoot down the missle(s)? that delivered the actual strike.
I paused a long time at this particular phrasing and wished the author had elucidated his point.
Not in any usable form. It would be vaporized and strewn across hundreds of square miles. We don’t even know what type of weapons Israel used on the facility. Would take a long time to clean up the facility and even longer to recover the scattered material, if that’s even possible. Would be somewhat akin to the incident where a US B-52 carrying multiple nuclear warheads crashed and/or dumped its cargo to avoid crashing somewhere in Spain. Real nasty aftermath. No detonations, but there was dispersal. Not a short-term cleanup.
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