Posted on 07/18/2006 8:15:39 PM PDT by FARS
It disables it. When you "punch holes" in a missile with a conventional warhead, it explodes or it flies off-coarse and lands somewhere other than where it was aimed.
With a nuke warhead, one hopes that the device is disabled and it falls to the earth and does not perform it's intended function.
Worst case: the warhead works as designed and a thermonuclear detonation occurs.
Next worse case: The conventional explosives in the warhead detonate but nuclear fission does not occur. Radioactive material is spread over a wide area. (A dirty bomb.)
Best case: The device is disabled and falls to the earth causing little or no damage and contamination.
Can you print me a cartoon of this Imam. I know they respond well to cartoons.
I just registered for my fall classes. Should I wait to see if the world is going to end before I buy my textbooks?
There. All fixed!
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I'm a Bible-believer and believe Damascus will be destroyed in the future. Wouldn't it be just a tad ironic if Ahmadinejad's missile did it?
check out this thread. Looks like Iran and N.Korea might be coordinating.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1668260/posts?page=10
odd that a glassified mecca would prompt such a comment
Check this out ping
Admadi is out of his freakin' mind....
Dang it, where is Baghdad Bob when you need him?! LOL!
Iran will not use nukes, even if it has them.
The purpose of having them is like the USSR - state power is used to assist proxy states/groups and nukes keep oponents from widening their response to direct military strikes on you. So Iran thinks that having nukes will allow it to be even more adventurous with its support of terrorists.
However, it will be forced over time to cease that pretense, because Israel and the U.S. will simply increase their response with conventional weapons against Iran's clients, until its clients are no longer threats. Iran will be left to chose resignation that it cannot revolutionize the world on its Islamic political agenda, or its madmen will make a suicidally stupid act.
The Iranian leaders are insane but not suicidal.
They know that once they let the genie out, they have no control over the results (our response), but they do know that one result will be that shortly after their first nuke hits, their nation ceases to exist.
That said - another long war, with worldwide proxies and allies is upon us again.
I keep getting this mental image of Jim Carey in that one Batman movie (Val Kilmer as Batman),,where Jim Carey is in the looney bin in a straight jacket and he proclaims
I AM BATMAN!
Or, the 12th IMAM could be SPARTACUS!
Yes. The consequence would be the ushering in of the 12th iman. Their goal.
The guy is doing everything he can to drive up Oil Prices. He keeps making threats and the prices keep going up. This one could be his final put up or shut up.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Shalom Israel
Absolutely! Could you imagine trying to sell them back with the sun eclipsing and the Riders of the Apocalypse trotting through campus? No way. You should concentrate on drunken orgies until the stars fall out of the sky.
Well, that's how I spent my college career...
I hope you're not a betting man.
Coordinating on timing:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1668260/posts
N. Korea: North calls alert, U.S. and Korea plan 5-way talks(wartime mobilization preparation)
"The Iranian leaders are insane but not suicidal."
Yea, muslim extremists have never been known to commit suicide.
If the Iranians were to try to launch a nuke, they would have to fuel the missile first, and they would never get it even half full.
A bigger threat is that they could use one of their proxies to plant the bombs, but I imagine Israel have fairly sophisticated radiation detection equipment.
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