Posted on 07/04/2002 7:51:59 AM PDT by truthandlife
A United States Air Force report asserts that Israel is building a nuclear naval force meant to respond to any nuclear strike by such countries as Iran or Iraq.
It is the first time a U.S. military institution has stated that Israel has produced a hydrogen bomb. The number of purported Israeli nuclear weapons cited in the report is double that of previous assessments.
The report, sponsored by the air force's Counterproliferation Center, asserts that the navy can deploy any of what it asserts is Israel's 400 atomic and hydrogen weapons, Middle East Newsline reported. The center is located in the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
In a report entitled "The Third Temple's Holy of Holies: Israel's Nuclear Weapons," U.S. Army Col. Warner Farr said Israel's nuclear arsenal has grown from an estimated 13 nuclear bombs in 1967 to 400 nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. Farr said Israel's navy could deploy nuclear weapons on the fleet of three German-built Dolphin-class diesel submarines.
"Israel will then have a second strike capability with nuclear cruise missiles, and this capability could well change the nuclear arms race in the Middle East," the report, which Farr said is based on unclassified sources, read. "Israeli rhetoric on the new submarines labels them 'national deterrent' assets."
The report said these nuclear missiles could have a range of 350 kilometers. Israel would try to base its nuclear naval force near Oman, with which Israel has informal relations, the September 1999 report, which was recently published by the center, said.
"The first basing options for the new second-strike force of nuclear missile capable submarines include Oman, an Arab nation with unofficial Israeli relations, located strategically near Iran," the report said.
The U.S. Air Force Counterproliferation Center was established in 1998. The center is meant to help prepare air force commanders counter the threat from weapons of mass destruction. The report did not deem Israel's purported nuclear arsenal as a direct threat to the United States.
The report said Israel's Defense Ministry has requested from the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon authorization for a retaliatory nuclear strike. Israel could also use Jordanian air space for a nuclear strike on Iran, which the report said could produce a nuclear warhead as early as 2004.
Probably as a warning to the Arab nations to leave Israel the hell alone. They may have even done this with the blessings of the Israelis.
A better question: Who or what is to stop Israel from taking and occupying more land from Syria, Jordan, and Egypt? Not that they would, mind you.
I've often thought about those questions myself...but I'll do you one better. Why isn't Israel playing a much larger role in Iraq? If I'm interpreting all the evidence that has been presented showing all of Saddam's WMD's,(Iraq does not have ICBM technology) isn't Israel (and perhaps Turkey) the one nation that is in the most immenant danger? And you can't use the world opinion or U.N. opinion excuse, we all know that they are irrelevant.
By the way the "minuteman" which was an ICBM. It worked fine.
At least once in the ocean south of South Africa, quite some time ago.
Amazing. Someone makes a pinheaded comment that isn't backed up by any factual evidence, and you pronounce it "most likely a true story," despite the fact that Israel's bomb was produced with French and South African help.
Sure your screen name shouldn't be "sneakywillis?" :o)
Hey twitchy, are you too one of those loons getting their material from JewWatch? Lol. I knew it ;).
Go look up Shavit. And then, maybe, join your pals over at "LibertyStormfront"???
Iraq will strike Israel.
Our troops will have stayed a safe distance away from where Baghdad had been.
What's the factual basis for this assertion? Where's your proof? (Hint: you can't link to any rag owned by Willis Carto)
Is that the same thing as saying "WITHOUT any help from the US",or does it just say the French and the South Africans were also involved?". Hey,we all know how much the French love Jews,so it's no surprise they would help the Israeli's,right? Or could it be that the French involvement was with South Africa,and then South Africa made a business deal with Israel? A business deal where the South Africans were a "cut out" to hide US involvement,either official or unofficial?
Well,at least we now know what the official US stance is on these old rumors.
No thanks,bigot. They have too much in common with your JDL buddies. Flip sides of the same coin.
BTW,what with Israel being your first love and all,don't you feel like a hyporcrite living here in the US? Shouldn't you be putting your ass where your heart is? Or is your personal safety and your desire to amass personal wealth more important to you? If you were the true-believer you pretend to be,you would be wearing a uniform in Israel right now.
The US was rather pissed off at the Israelis for building the Dimona reactor, because the US was trying to keep France from developing nukes (Gosh, it seems Eisenhower was smarter than anyone gives him credit for).
Hey,we all know how much the French love Jews,so it's no surprise they would help the Israeli's,right?
In the 1950s and into the mid-1960s, the Israelis and the French had very close ties--notice the large numbers of Dassault aircraft in the Israeli Air Force starting in the 1950s. There were Israeli nuclear scientists at the first French nuclear test in 1960--because the French and the Israelis collaborated on nuclear weapons research. DeGaulle flipped to the Arabs in 1967 in return for oil.
Or could it be that the French involvement was with South Africa,and then South Africa made a business deal with Israel?
BZZT. Wrong answer!
Nope. The Israelis, after being dumped by the French, cut a deal with the South Africans--bomb design expertise in return for uranium...and the rest, as they say, is history.
Who cares how much they complain.
so why can't Iraq ...?
Because even their Arab neighbors don't want Iraq to have them. The truth is THEY are in more danger of a nuke or other WMD attack from Iraq than the Israelis or the US. The US and Israel have the ability and the will power to totally destroy the whole country in minutes,while all Iraq's neighbors could do would be surrender. Anybody who thinks Israel or the US would surrender if threatened by Iraq needs to check themselves into somewhere quiet for a nice little rest.
Ever hit yourself in the mouth with all that kneejerking?
The French will sell anything to anyone. The only question is 'How much?'.
South Africa had its own problems back then.
The Jews didn't need U.S. help. They have brilliant scientists, home grown. The only help the South Africans gave them was a place to test the weapon. In exchange (I am guessing) Israel gave South Africa technology.
However much you or anyone else hates Israel, 400 nukes are in the equation, now and forever.
BTW. I ain't Jewish, not by blood or faith. But if I was I would be more than OK with it.
He'll issue the use it all order.
Much of it will have been taken out by our spec ops, and air strikes early on.
Some of his commanders will not obey, since they know to do so will get them executed later.
They're not all stupid, just afraid of Sodamn Insane.
Once the balloon goes up, they'll fear us more than their boss.
I suspect something will get launched and hit Israel. Israels response will depend on what the warhead is, and the death count.
Sodamn Insane didn't issue the general use order during GW-I,
because he'd correctly assumed we would stop prior to his being in peril.
Although I refer to him as Sodamn Insane, I don't believe he's truely nuts.
He's just a thug with no regard for his people.
Disclaimer - I'm just using the SWAG method.
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