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To: Flavius

Hypothetically speaking, if the Iranians get fully functional nukes from Russia, there is no need to test them.


45 posted on 03/30/2006 11:07:22 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
"Hypothetically speaking, if the Iranians get fully functional nukes from Russia, there is no need to test them."

Only if they used them within 60 days of getting them.

The high-tech maintenance issues for nukes is non-trivial, and runs contrary to most urban myths about them.

Also, keep in mind that nukes leave a unique radiation signature much like DNA. We'll know who built the nuke, where the uranium was enriched (or plutonium bred) shortly after any surface or aerial detonation anywhere (sub-surface can take up to 90 days depending on depth and rock formations above the blast)...something that Russia, China, Pakistan, or France would not appreciate some 15 minutes later (ICBM travel time from the U.S. and from our Boomers at sea).

47 posted on 03/31/2006 12:26:53 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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