I am sure Susan Rice is on the case, ready hit the twitter feeds and Sunday morning talk shows.
IIRC, Israel has thermonuclear (”H-Bombs”) as well as nuclear (”A-Bombs”) weapons like those Iran is developing, including some on submarines.
“Iran is planning to build a nuclear bomb with at least triple the force of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in World War II...”
Would that be enough to blow Israel off the map? I’m pretty sure that’s their guiding principle for the engineering.
So what can a 50kt device do?
Yeah, but they would only use it in response to an offensive You Tube video.
C’mon ... the arabs haven’t done anything significant since the 5th century. They’ll blow themselves up trying to figure out which end the trigger is on ;)
Heyyyyy, they cheated. Ahmadinejab said they were going nuclear for energy purposes. Why would you use a bomb for nuclear energy??? Derrrrr Heeeeee Hurrrrrr... /s
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And here I though they only wanted to build a little bitty one. Who is surprised by this?
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And here I though they only wanted to build a little bitty one. Who is surprised by this?
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And here I though they only wanted to build a little bitty one. Who is surprised by this?
Would be a shame if that bomb somehow blew up outside Tehran, killing hundreds of thousands. (Then the world would know that iran isn’t to be trusted with nukes.)
50kt means they’ve mastered ‘boosting’. Nuclear boosting means injecting tritium right before the conventional explosives go off. This ‘boosts’ the yields up due to neutron reaction from fusion of the tritium inside.
There is no reason to ‘salt’ anything with cobalt. At 50kt, salting is useless. It won’t convert anything to an isotope in the needed amounts. You have to move up to thermonuclear 2 or 3 stage. In that case, you want to use U-238 for the ‘dirty’ version and never anything else. Why? It’ll fission as well as U-235 and increase the yield per kg of the bomb and will also spew all the fallout you would ever want from a ‘cobalt salted bomb’.
Well, they’re right on schedule. I suppose hydrogen bombs are next, with yields in the megatons instead of kilotons.
The US developed its first H-bomb about seven years after the A-bomb. Russia did it in five, in part by stealing it from us. More information is out there today than ever. Iran will probably be able to do it in five or six — with help. Then we’ll all wake up one morning, perhaps while Hussein Obama is still in his second term, and Israel will be no more (and maybe not NYC, Chicago, DC, Miami, LA and Seattle, to boot).
No laughing matter.
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Adding the hydrogen isotopes tritium and deuterium boosts the yield of fission bombs. This was first tested by the US during the early 1950s and doubled the explosive yield from the first Hiroshima and Nagasaki designs. Iran is assisted in developing high yield bombs because that the technology is well known and almost certainly they had help from either North Korea or rogue Pakistani nuke designer A.Q.Khan.
Iran’s building an enormous nuclear weapon???
Wow, there’s a shocker.
Do you think maybe somebody should tell the Israelis? It’s possible they don’t know about this....
Bear in mind that Iran would most likely be building more than one bomb—probably quite a few. And remember that Iran has sent at least a couple of satellites into space, and long ago claimed to have or claimed that they were building EMP weapons. Iranian leaders have threatened to destroy Israel, but also, a few years ago, to destroy the West (several times).
Publications in certain European countries propagandized for several years that there is only a conflict between Iran and Israel in order to mislead us into negotiating between the two (against Israel) as moral equals instead of seeing Iran as an enemy against the West in general.
I posted hundreds of articles on the topic a few years ago, but most who commented downplayed the importance of the matter and ridiculed such news (probably international trade interests, revenue/debt interests other than defense, anti-Israel interests, others). Iran most likely obtained assistance from higher education in our own USA (many of them in physics, engineering,...) more directly from engineers from North Korea, Pakistan and other places (public news).
Oil, money and pride are not more important than what we should be doing (pride, for example, that of a particular Pharoah of the past, and maybe another in Babylon, and many others). Many have recently said that they have feelings of unease—that something terrible might happen in the near future. But their responses about their intended reactions are often erroneous and wrong (plans to live by the sword against their own neighbors). They haven’t learned about the only righteous fear that they should have.