[TigerLikesRooster]

I am sure Iran wants to pull that off. Whether U.S. would allow Iranian nuclear program to move that far is quite another question Iran has to deal with.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[ProudVet77]

Detonated at a height of 60 to 500 kilometers above the continental U.S., one nuclear warhead could cripple the country ?
ROTFLMAO
Hope they can handle the 100-200 W88s they get in return.

[Polybius]

Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure, effectively neutralizing the world's lone superpower

Don't think so.

[Harpo Speaks]

Sure, Iran. Go ahead and launch in EMP weapon -- it will be the last weapon you ever launch. Our "big boomer" submarines at sea are impervious to EMP and will retaliate en masse.

[Always Independent]

What about all the previous atmospheric tests. Were they too high?

[Lurker]

There is no way a single nuke could possibly knock out even a majority of our critical infrastructure.

It would take several thermonuclear devices (hydrogen bombs) to accomplish that. While Iran may possess some standard fission type weapons and relatively short range tactical missiles there is no way they have the capability to do this.

The EMP threat from Iran is greatly exaggerated.

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[america-rules]

Iran can't keep a light bulb lit for 48 hours so we should think they can do this?

[frankiep]

And Canada wants nothing to do with a missile defense system.
I guess that they think that in an event such as this that the laws of physics will be suspended and any and all damage done will be confined to only our side of the border.

[CyberAnt]

When Sharon paid a visit to the Ranch recently, he brought with him aerial photographs of Iran. I sincerely hope this means we have a joint plan going to take the nuke stuff out of service.

[dagnabbit]

This article seems to presume that the Assured Destruction part of MAD deterence doesn't apply to Iran (In Iran's case the destruction would be unilateral not mutual). Why would Iran actually launch a first strike by missile against the USA? Are they really assumed to be so Jihad-nuts that, unlike the USSR for 50 years, they don't care about absolute annihilation?

[Bon mots]

Germany was planning to do this to us during WWII. They had the capability of towing V-2s to within striking range of major US cities. They never did, because we kept bombing them to smithereens, but if they had a few months more, we could have seen these kinds of attacks.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[PAR35]

At worst the pulse would cause local inconvenience. One bomb generating a big enough EMP to bring down the country? Not a chance. There are conventional ways to cause greater disruption, but I'm not going to post them here.

[Casloy]

While they launch that one missle they may as well launch whatever they have left into the center of Teheran, because eithe way the results will be the same. Several missles with follow their first launch, either theirs or ours.

[OPS4]

There is no bomb that could wipe out the U.S. in one application. Maybe these idiots should lay off the hash
pipe.
OPs4 God BLess America!

[Smoote]

"effectively neutralizing the world's lone superpower"

Fourteen Ohio Class Boomers say otherwise.

[I_dmc]

So happy to see someone is giving this serious thought. Been worrying me since I found out about Iran's missle program (N. Korea, then China, then Russia - now they have working missles).

[hosepipe]

They do this...AND......
All their oil belongs to US... (after the reponse.)

[the crow]

bump for later. thanks for the post.

[Strategerist]

I'd like someone to explain to my WHY Joseph Farah has a "defense and intelligence newsletter" and why he's remotely qualified to do one that people actually pay for.