Giving up any element of surprise seems foolish militarily. then again, I shouldn’t be expecting rational tought from this bunch.
Nuke test?
Which would be tomorrow our time?
Zer0 and his merry band of gay blades have screwed around with trying "diplomacy", appeasement, sanctions, etc. long enough to allow Iran to actually build a nuke...
...and Thurs, Iran is going to test it on Israel?????
Probably just more nasty hate talk.
That's what I think it's gonna be. And they're gonna really mean it, too.
The nukes aren't quite ready, just yet. Wait 'til this summer, just in time for an Oktober surprise for their buddy in the WH to benefit from.
Is there reason to think this talk is anything more than bluster and rhetoric?
Nuke test would make the most sense. Something that has nothing to do with military surprise and everything to do with “Hey, look at us!”.
"He’s totally obsessed with bringing an end to the protests, and the nightly chants of “Death to the Dictator” that haunt him so. In the last few days he’s been telephoning opposition journalists and intellectuals, telling them to give it up."
...but enough about Obama for now. Let's get back to Iran...
Oh please, Ahmadinejad, don’t nuke DC, New York City LA or San Francisco. That would be terrible!!!
All the best and brightest in America live in those cities. Why, you might wipe out Congress, the Financial whiz-kids that defrauded the world, the American porn industry, or a large chunk of the American homosexual population if you nuked those cities!
Something economic.
I hear he’s going to make in snow in Dallas.
Except that they just did this. While it got some coverage, most of the American sheep didn't give a damn the first time. A second time will have no psychological impact on the west.
Although they could do this in conjunction with a large-scale terror attack and the crackdown would give them some plausible deniability ("no, no, we were referring to this, not that")-- which is all you really need in a world full of Neville Chamberlains.
Excellent article!
A NUKE Test most likely and I hope it blows up in their faces before they get in the safety of a protective bunker.
THREAT POSED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) TO U.S. MILITARY SYSTEMS AND CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE
House of Representatives,
Committee on National Security,
Military Research and Development Subcommittee,
Washington, DC, Wednesday, July 16, 1997.
[Excerpt:]
STATEMENT OF DR. GARY L. SMITH, DIRECTOR, APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
[...]
Dr. SMITH.
[...]
The Applied Physics Lab operates under about a dozen task order contracts with a number of major sponsors, covering between 200 and 300 separate tasks in any given year. All of our funding is derived from programs. We have no line-item support. About 80 percent of our funding comes from sponsors within the Department of Defense, and about 15 percent from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
[...]
Note that a burst on the order of 500 kilometers in altitude can cover the entire continental United States.
Mr. WELDON. What strength burst would that be?
Dr. SMITH. It is not terribly burst-strength dependent; almost any burst will produce that kind of radiation. The strength of the field will change at the various radii from the burst point, but it will cover the same area regardless of the strength of the burst.
Iran hails successful launch of satellite rocket
Posted on Wed 03 Feb 2010 02:51:50 AM MST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443266/posts
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/1984/ERD.htm
EMP
Submitted To
Mr. Wiggins
In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements
for Written Communications
The Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Quantico, Virginia
Major R. D. Erick
United States Marine Corps
April 6, 1984
Excerpt:
“However, the effects produced by a nuclear explosion were not fully realized until the “Johnston Island Test” in 1962. This nuclear blast had a yield of 1.4 megatons at an altitude of 250 miles. The explosion damaged a number of low earth orbit satellites and caused malfunctions and early failure of others. Another effect that was noted during the blast was a blackout up to 600 miles away of high frequency radio communications that lasted for hours. It was caused by disruption of the ionosphere. It also popped circuit breakers, street lights went out, burglar alarms rang, and power lines went down in Honolulu, about 800 miles away. In Nov. 1962, all above ground testing was halted and our testing and analysis was limited to underground testing, analysis of the existing atmospheric test data, nonnuclear simulation, and theoretical calculations.”