Posted on 07/12/2008 9:44:00 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Throughout the Cold War, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists kept a Doomsday Clock, monitoring how close they thought the world was to catastrophic nuclear destruction, measured as ‘minutes from midnight.' This week Iran tested its first nuclear-capable, long-range missile and moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock a little closer to disaster.
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Iranian Missile Test Moves Doomsday Clock Closer to Midnight
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Iran ready to strike at Israel’s nuclear heart
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The Sunday Times ^ | June 29, 2008 | Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv
Posted on Sat 28 Jun 2008 05:52:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iran has moved ballistic missiles into launch positions, with Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant among the possible targets, defence sources said last week.
The movement of Shahab-3B missiles, which have an estimated range of more than 1,250 miles, followed a large-scale exercise earlier this month in which the Israeli air force flew en masse over the Mediterranean in an apparent rehearsal for a threatened attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. Israel believes Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at acquiring nuclear weapons.
The sources said Iran was preparing to retaliate for any onslaught by firing missiles at Dimona, where Israel’s own nuclear weapons are believed to be made.
Major-General Mohammad Jafari, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, told a Tehran daily: “This country [Israel] is completely within the range of the Islamic Republic’s missiles. Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime – despite all its abilities – cannot confront it.”
An editorial in a government newspaper, Jomhouri Eslami, said: “Our response will hit right at their temple.”
The sabre-rattling coincided with a visit to Israel yesterday by the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, for talks with his Israeli opposite number, Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi. This intensified speculation that Israel was seeking US approval for a possible attack on Iran.
It is 5 minutes to midnight according to the doomsday clock, but it seems to rank climate change and carbon footprints right up there with a nuclear Iran. When Algore runs the doomsday clock, it begins to lose its meaning.
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These are not Atomic Scientists and should be ignored.
Filed.
We’re not dealing with rational people.
Iran is a problem that needs to be eliminated-asap.I’m inclined to believe if they acquire or are able to develop their own nukes-they’ll use them.I don’t think they appreciate the concept of “mutually assured destruction”.
absolutely...
Doomsday for Iran, perhaps.
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