[Wallace T.]

Agreed. The Iranians do not have intercontinental missile capability and a nuclear attack on U.S. cities would result in the end of Iran. However, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa are entirely different in terms of Iran's capability. Israel is understood to have nuclear capacity, but how much they have is not widely known by the public.

[DuncanWaring]

Intercontinental missiles are not necessary to attack NYC and LA.

A good-sized fishing boat would work well.

[Justa]

Well, they have cruise missiles and if they’ve worked at getting their warheads down to size they could equip their Kilo-class submarines with nuke cruise missiles. They have been rather focused on enrichment which lends one to believe they trying to get the warheads as small as possible.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The Iranians do not have intercontinental missile capability

But they have container shipping technology. Hell, they could even smuggle one over the border from Mexico through a tunnel.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Maybe not inter-continental, however the Russians have made a devious camouflage of sorts (Club K Missile System). Missile systems that fit snugly into shipping containers. I have not read up on them as of recent, but of my last reading, the missiles had a range of 400 miles (speed unknown). Some of the missiles can carry a payload of 320 lbs. I think it is safe to say they could carry kiloton range nuke warheads.

Side bar, anyone know how "far out" the United States is sweeping for radiological signs? What if a shipping container came in from the gulf? Last I heard / read the obama administration had shut down our southern defense monitoring.

[JPG]

--Israel is understood to have nuclear capacity, but how much they have is not widely known by the public.--

How much does Israel have?

Enough.

[Hulka]

“The Iranians do not have intercontinental missile capability”

But they do have shipping capability and Long Beach and other ports are vulnerable.

“and a nuclear attack on U.S. cities would result in the end of Iran”

I’m not too sure about that. Wish I could be. With the big zero, democRATs, massive retaliation was never an option and they never would respond in kind.

As I see it, the big zero and democRATS would respond by imposing leaky sactions while whining to the UN, eventually getting some sort of strongly worded demarche. . .at best we could hope they would invade Iran followed quickly by pulling-out and then sending billions of dollars in aid to Iran for re-building.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Oh please.

This is ridiculous on it’s face. He’s crawling to the neocons and AIPAC with this crapola. We had a decade of this cynical fear mongering and it got us a dead GOP and a police state.

This is very disappointing. But, not surprising (sigh).