I don’t recall another putative major incident where it took so long to determine if it actually occurred or nothing happened at all. Well, maybe Roswell. Intelligence knew right away, though, even agencies that weren’t in on the sabotage if any. And if radioactive particles were released they would have made it past the borders of Iran by now, easily.
“I don’t recall another putative major incident where it took so long to determine if it actually occurred or nothing happened at all.”
This looks to me like a replay of the Israeli strike on the Syrian reactor. The Israelis said nothing after the attack and neither did the US or Russians. The Syrians have never admitted that it happened to this day.
Here is a great recent update from one of the principals in the Bush Admin:
“Bombing the Syrian Reactor: The Untold Story” by Elliott Abrams
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990636/posts