[Conservative Chicagoan]

Good for Israel. Hopefully they will teach the Palestinians and other Arab governements a thing or two.

[TADSLOS]

Peace through superior firepower.

[Cachelot]

Very good. And since external analysts have always erred on the side of caution when it comes to assessing Israel's nuclear capability, let's just hope it's 800 warheads. Or 1600.

[MinuteGal]

As the late, great Teddy Roosevelt said, "Speak softly, but carry a big nuke".

Leni

[Sender]

400 today, perhaps a few less by next year? Smoke em if ya got em.

[LibKill]

Let the arab countries put that in their hookahs and smoke it.

[anu_shr]

A single use of a WMD by an arab country should neccessarily mean use of all the 400 such weapons against all Islamic countries. This should be an adequate deterrent against any suicide bombers . But hey - that would mean half a billion people will be bonking 36 billion virgins assuming 72 for each male vaporised!

[backhoe]

Kool!

[Grut]

The Israelis have grasped a very simple principle; it's good to be an ally of the United States, but it's lethal to be our dependent. Ask the Shah, South Vietnam, Cambodia....

[Grut]

Incidentally, so much for Jeremiah 8:22.

[BigBobber]

350 km is not a very long rang. The could not even hit Tehran with these cruise missles.

[crypt2k]

It is the first time a U.S. military institution has stated that Israel has produced a hydrogen bomb.

The explosive yield of these devices is in the Megatons.

It's certain Israel now has the means to completely wipe out ALL of the Arab world.

[PA Engineer]

Here are a few other FR related links:

New German submarine reaches Israel

Israel - Submarine: What in the world is going on?

Israel steps up submarine acquisition

Israel Moves - Quickly - To Beef Up Its Submarine Force

Israel Makes Nuclear Waves With Submarine Missile Test

[1234]

FYI: have read/heard that the raw mat'ls for these bombs were obtained illegally and/or by theft-lots from U.S.. BUT HEY, what's a little espionage against us by an ally?!

[backhoe]

The Samson Option-- what is known about Israel's Nuclear Weapons?

[Publius6961]

Cool.
That's 10 for every major Muslim capital, and 100 or so left over for Mecca and Medina to share...

[Classicaliberalconservative]

Just 400? Damn I was hoping they would have at least 4000.

[Bringbackthedraft]

As I said on the reposting of this item, all I can think of is:
Oh we can be thankful and joyful and proud,
that man has invented a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lucky day,
someone will set the spark off,
and WE WILL ALL BE BLOWN AWAY.

[M. Thatcher]

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

FYI Farr's "report" was written in 1999.

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The writer in me can envision a positively evil scenario in which the US could take care of the problem that is Iraq without expending a fortune on a military campaign.

Any FReeper guesses on what that might be?