anything launched from China or Russia, it's heat bloom will be seen from on high the instant it's launched and will be tracked from source to destination
Posted on 11/13/2011 10:13:55 AM PST by drewh
The potential for war with Iran is being hotly debated, in light of the new report about that country’s alleged nuclear arsenal.
“The regime in Iran poses a significant threat to regional and global peace,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told reporters, responding to the release of the International Atomic Energy Agency report. The report, released Wednesday, laid out the most details yet of Iran’s alleged effort to build a nuclear arsenal.
But there has been some questioning the sources of that report.
And now, some lawmakers in the U.S. are suggesting that Iran might have some ideas on what to do with those nuclear weapons (if they do indeed have them).
They claim that Iran’s military and Revolutionary Guard are practicing for the detonation of a nuclear weapon near space, the ultimate goal being an Electromagnetic Pulse attack on the U.S.
Republican Representative Trent Franks says Iran is practicing launching a ballistic missile from a vessel in the Caspian Sea and they also have tested high-altitude explosions with their Shahab-111 missile.
“Terrorists think that electromagnetic pulse or some type of attack is their ultimate asymmetric weapon,” he told Aviation Week recently. “Iran’s (actions) clarify that jihadist nation’s intent for the U.S. and Israel.”
But how real is the threat from Iran? That is unclear.
If Iran had the bomb, would it use it on an attack against the U.S., as that would likely mean the destruction of Iran in a retaliatory strike?
Whatever the case, in Ottawa, the Harper government has been talking a hard line. “Canada is deeply disturbed by the actions of the current Iranian regime,” Baird said. “The information presented in the report is only the latest of a series of grave concerns our government has with the regime.”
“Canada will continue to work with its like-minded allies to take the necessary action for Iran to abandon its nuclear program,” Baird said. ”We encourage others to join in this effort. It is not a question of if, but to what extent, we will act in response to this report.”
Who would they attack?
The practice is called nuclear deterrence.
It is being accomplished with a newspaper article
anything launched from China or Russia, it's heat bloom will be seen from on high the instant it's launched and will be tracked from source to destination
i'll rephrase, a payload from a Chinese launch is given an ID-# and tracked like everything else in space and if it happens to detonate over ConUS, we'd know where it came from
How big were the payloads? An atomic bomb is not light.
But I recall reading in the past couple of weeks that Iran had been meeting / consulting with N. Korea or Pakistan or some of the proliferation crowd about warheads small enough to fit in a satellite package; and also (was it the IAEA report?) that they were looking at components whose only obvious application was the non-fissionable components of a spherical compression fission device (i.e. plutonium).
NO cheers, unfortunately.
And (ugh!) Huffington-Puffington quotes British Foreign Secretary William Hague speaking to the House of Commons that Iran had been testing missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
No cheers, unfortunately.
Sounds informed, to me.
Thanks thanks.
NOPE.
Not imho,
The heavy duty actions have to wait for the globalists’ choreography.
EMP attack by Iran = Glass Parking Lot paved in Tehran.
I pray it doesn't come to this.
Here will I say in my best Farsi, "AZADI!"
5.56mm
It goes on to briefly address the effects, “EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences. EMP will cover the wide geographic region within line of sight to the nuclear weapon. It has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of US society…” The Commission’s chairman has testified that within one year of such an attack, 70% – 90% of Americans would be dead from such causes as disease and violence. It is also highly plausible that many Americans would die of starvation due to the interruption of the national food supply.
According to the Washington Department of Health, Office of Radiation Protection, “A 1.4 Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas would destroy most of the electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States.”
Āzādī = Persian: آزادی a Persian word, meaning freedom and liberty.
خدا ایرانیان کمک به دست آوردن آزادی است.حذف آخوندها.همه این افراد باید آزاد باشند..
The worlds first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity Site, in NM on July 16, 1945.
“Little Boy” (uranium critical mass device) was detonated about 1900 feet over on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and on August 9, 1945 “Fat Man” (plutonium implosion device) was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Few people in the world knew about these weapons before they were dropped on Japan.
The original test at the trinity site woke up people 90 miles away (night time blast). But it was explained as a accident before the bombs were dropped in Japan.
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