[A CA Guy]

We should try that theory out with a bunker buster some time and see how it goes IMO.

[unkus]

We’ll see.

[plain talk]

yep. old news. they are too far underground

[Bean Counter]

No problem...

[Deaf Smith]

The USA is beyond conventional weapons.

[doc1019]

Israel says Iran nuclear plant immune to conventional strike

Is Israel telling us that a nuclear strike is the only option?

[lacrew]

Um...is he saying Israel might use a nuke to destroy it?

[GeronL]

nuke them, nuke them

[Mad Federalist]

Just nuke the damn place, damn it.

[Kansas58]

How hard would it be to simply assassinate the Iranians running this program?

[OCC]

"I believe that by early 2010 Iran will hold threshold technology (for building a bomb). That means that if it wanted, it could develop nuclear weapons within a year from obtaining threshold technology," a senior official quoted him as telling the parliamentary committee.

Judging by past (Wrong!) intelligence estimates, I would guess they have 3-5 A-Bombs by now, well on their way to thermonuclear ones.

[willgolfforfood]

I guess we'll have to nuke the entire site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

[theymakemesick]

Drop a bunker buster on top of it to open a channel and then drop a nuke into the hole. The technology exists.

[pankot]

They (Israel) don’t need a bunker-buster. Just tactical nukes with high-yield uranium.. The sites may not be destroyed but they will be hot for the next 100 or so years.

[ObamaScaresMe]

I for one am shocked, SHOCKED, that the Iranians would be so inconsiderate as to place a weapons creation facility such that it would not be vulnerable to conventional airstrikes.

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[bert]

Which means a non conventional weapon is required. Gas, radiation or any other means to make the are uninhabitable.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Then nuke it.

I’d bet it’s not immune to a 30 megaton blast or two.

[Slings and Arrows]

While I’d not lose any sleep over Israel nuking Iran, I wonder if they’re planning a boots-on-the-ground operation, a la Entebbe? Israel has plenty of Iranian Jews (i.e., native Farsi speakers) and legendary intelligence capabilities.

[SunkenCiv]

The Israelis have been using public statements of this kind in an effort to minimize outside help to the Iranian regime as the people of Iran are in revolt. This will, I believe, only buy some time, although I hope it the revolt will lead to the overthrow of the mullahcracy.

I do not believe there is any hope that the various Arab states will align against Iran once it has the Bomb, nor do I believe that most Arab states are not currently working on their own nuclear weapons programs.

Probably the neo-Soviet regime in Russia, and the Chinese dictatorship is active in covert support for all the region’s nuke programs.