Posted on 09/28/2007 8:27:46 AM PDT by Perdogg
"Information we have from inside the regime indicates the site is destined for military nuclear activity, mainly for the further enrichment of uranium," Mehdi Abrichamtchi, of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in Paris.
The new site in central Iran consists of a "vast underground area beneath the Karkass mountains linked to the surface by two tunnels and connecting with a third tunnel" to the Natanz nuclear complex 5km away, Mr Abrichamtchi said.
"The site is protected against aerial attack. If Natanz is bombed, it won't be touched," he said. "To maintain secrecy, the area has been declared a military zone, and the regime has bought up all the local land."
The NCRI is the political arm of the People's Mujahideen of Iran, which has been declared a terrorist organisation by the US and the EU.
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Once completed, I suspect the US Military is ready to give it a thorough test.
And keeping our borders open (to illegal aliens).
Where is Mandy Pepperidge? :)
Not so - look at the Maginot Line, for example.
Oh. Yeah. Never mind.
Exactly. It might take quite a large number of strikes, but eventually you can remove a mountain if need be. Or at least seal it up so absolutely tight that no one can ever get in or out again, or make the whole thing so unstable that it is rendered useless.
The coordinates, if you please?
No such thing...
Check out the Mk 8 and 11 Ground Penetrator Bombs here:
“Nothing is bomb proof.”
Especially a tunnel opening.
Ping to #48
No doubt. If you can't get in or out the facility won't be of much use. Reopening it could be tough too with missiles dropping in on a random schedule.
You are right. Our special weapons were very, very , very accurate and the CEP (circular error probability) was dozens of yards.
Read Odom's book "Collapse of the Soviet Military" and they have a chapter dedicated to American nuclear weapons. Soviets knew how damn accurate our missiles were because the monitored the Kwalejewan (sp) test site when they launched ICBMs (Minutemen and MX) from Vandenberg AFB in CA. The MIRV warheads would splash down within YARDS of the floating buoy out in the ocean after travelling 5000 miles.
This is why, if you research American nuclear weapons, why we have 100-400 KT (not more MT devices in inventory after retiring Titan II) warheads and the Russians still retain 1MT "counter value" warheads that are accurate to say, half a mile. Thats still pretty good IMHO. You have to get close to kill a missile silo, and ours are pretty deep, and the Russian one's are even deeper and harder.
Check out www.wikimapia.org. and type in "ICBM" and keep searching for Russian ones. I mapped most of the RUssian ICBM and Topel M fields. Also look at the Typhoons and Delta IV in Nerchipa and Murmansk area. Me and a guy named Jeff at DIA mapped out most Russian Nuclear forces.
The Soviet Major was fired for rebooting the missile warning software and not notifying higher. He actually saved both nations when he realized that this MUST be a glitch b/c America would not launch a half-dozen ICBMs.
It sounds like they're daring someone to make it a nuclear-proof bomb site.
Since they’re building it with Russia’s help they’d better worry about some strategic failures at inconvenient moments ...
“Mmmmmmm....The Force is strong in this one...”
One question: What’s the difference between a fortress and a prison?
A fortress is built to keep people out. A prison is built to keep people in...............
Incidentally, the same capability always applied to the Soviet SSBN’s operating off our coasts.
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