Posted on 10/04/2007 9:39:34 AM PDT by Parmenio
Yes, R. Actually, I’ll have to dig up the photo, it may have been something else.
I’d only heard of one post-WWII nuke used in combat (a nuclear land mine got tripped on the Sino-Russian border). What’s the other one?
If Israel ever finds a North Korean nuke in any enemy territories it really should respect the origins of the device and return it prompt by dropping it back over the northern Korea peninsula.
Return to sender, armed.
As others have responded, an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) knocks out sold state circuitry. One of the big fears about a nuclear Iran is that, if they acquire a nuclear ICBM capable of reaching the western hemisphere , a high-altitude detonation would effect a vast area of the US with the pulse.
The other one (that we know of that seismographic evidence cannot be dismissed as something else) was probably much the same. What *I’d* read about speculated (with *some* evidence sourced from former Soviet documents that managed to survive the multiple purges) that it was a nuclear self-destruct charge used by the Soviets when the Chinese overran a divisional HQ.
It depends on what happens next, of course. Who does Israel hit, besides Syria? Does Iran then pop in with its own nukes, directed at its various enemies?
And what does, say, Egypt do? Turkey?
I can't imagine that the consequences would be that an exchange between Israel and Syria would result in nothing -- the Israelis would undoubtedly hit other targets as well, if only to pre-empt.
Saw that before on FR. It made me giggle so loud, the office came running to see what the joke was (I work in a very decorous law firm). How true, how true, the words on the wings are.
Some informed-sounding speculation here...
Link?
PING
I suppose someone could could try to recover it someday - but get it deep enough... Of course, if its intercepted mid ocean then you may not know for sure who it was going to.
But, it seems odd that you would track this shipment out on the ocean (fairly easy I would guess) but let it arrive at a port with trucks and rail cars and other ships going every direction and not be concerned on if the whole shipment is going to one place, several places, or where? But... they may have had “on the ground” information to minimize them losing it. (Its a Brand X weapon, the only Brand X facility they have is located at ....)
If stupid comments about bombing were the means by which one can spot insane liberals, it would mean we've got quite a few insane liberal FReepers....
You lucky duck! It must make you feel so alive — just pulsing with engines — feeling the G forces. What a great feeling to be free of everything except the deep blue sky and the bright shining sun. Yahoo!
Which suggests that they have an aerial, not a satellite photo of your parents' house.
No problem.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123724
Gah, hit post too soon.
In any case, both the one you’d heard about and the one I’d read about (two separate detonations) *were* in the general vicinity of the Sino-Soviet border.
For those that don’t know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sino-Russian_Border_Agreement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
Beyond what Wikipedia says, after the 1969 mini-war, there continued to be skirmishes and even pitched medium-unit battles until well into the late 80s, early 90s.
So...why did the US require Israel to get a 'sample' as proof before 'approving' an air strike if we already knew about it?
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