Posted on 01/18/2016 1:49:57 PM PST by Hojczyk
We believe, based on comments made by two remarkable experts on this subject, Dr. Peter Pry of emptaskforce.org and Ambassador Hank Cooper of highfrontier.com, the latter of whom worked in the Reagan
Administration, that Iran already has the bomb and is working on figuring out how to get it into a vehicle and send it our way. It will not, however deliver annihilation to any single city or cities in the conventional sense.
That would be pointless, futile and suicidal. Instead, working together with North Korea, they will seek to take out our electric infrastructure and anything electronic via satellites they already have in space and others they’ll put up into space.
Unlike most satellites that orbit the earth horizontally (from west to east), the Iranian and North Korean satellites orbit from south to north over the poles, often going right over the center of the U.S. It’s what they may have in those satellites that keeps us up at night. (We’ll explain in Part Two of this dissertation.)
This was the fourth nuclear test conducted by North Korea. We learned from the Daily Beast and other sources, that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of Iran’s nuclear program, and other Iranian nuclear scientists had been present during North Korea's three previous nuclear tests in 2006, 2009, and 2013, and were likely present during the most recent test on January 6.
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I suspect the Iranians are capable of making bombs with higher yields. The Nork bombs seem to be duds of a sort.
Though who knows — maybe the Iranians want a smaller device that can fit onto their existing missile inventory.
Building a bomb is one thing.
Fitting it into a satellite and getting it into orbit
is something else again.
It is safe to assume that the NORKs will sell anything to anybody if the price is right.
The Iranians might be using the Norks to test nukes.
satellite (ICBM) launch has severe shock and vibration issues which make the difficult task of desiging a bomb-trigger device about 1,000 times harder ...
It is unusual that North Korea would want that kind of reconnaissance capability. Their sphere of interest doesn't really extend any farther than South Korea and they have pretty good humintel resources to cover that. More effective and much cheaper.
South Korean news has indicated that North Korea has the capability to put a bomb in orbit.
Our govt has admitted the NKs put a payload of 65kgs in orbit. Much too small for a nuke but they do have the capability.
That would be pretty sneaking if it gets around this agreement Kerry surrendered to. So it sounds feasible.
North Korea isn’t doing this for reconnaissance. They are doing it for projection of power and money.
My feeling is now that Iran has nuclear material, they really don’t need North Korea.
Pakistani design sucks so why continue to use it.
I agree on being underwhelmed with the Norkish bombs. Instead of sticks of dynamite, they seem to be sparklers.
That was mostly my point in my two posts on this thread. They have no need for reconaissance and they will do anything for money.
That’s good news. It gives us, what, another five years?
“The Iranians might be using the Norks to test nukes.”
We’re not the only ones to think that.
The author of the article writes:
“To raise the stakes, both countries have expressed their ardent desire to destroy us. The Iranian regime has been working their way to a nuclear bomb for almost thirty years. While Iran may well have achieved its nuclear goal, testing their monster would not have been possible in Iran. It would be picked up quickly not only by military sensors, but the U.S. Geological Survey, which recorded the latest North Korean test as being equivalent to a 5.1 earthquake. While Iran is earthquake prone, we would know the difference between a nuclear test and a bona fide earthquake almost immediately. It would be far too risky to attempt in the Middle East. So, where else could they go to test? Most likely to North Korea with a gift of badly needed oil and perhaps with some money and food. In exchange, Iran would get North Korea to test their bomb for them and it may not be the first time.”
Yep. Imagine if the launch failed and it spread radioactivity all around. Undeniable proof that would bring the world down upon them. Or maybe not.
The Iranians are smart people. While their leaders are psycho religious 13’ers...their people are more literate than ours.
While they have been contained due to resource limitations, their mind power should not be dismissed.
An effective EMP needn't be a high-yield device.
The low yields to date are consistent with the development of an EMP device.
An EMP attack on the U.S. could be devastating. And it would present the dilemma of how to respond. Would we respond in kind? Or would we escalate to thermonuclear? I'm not aware we have any EMP devices in the warehouse. And, if we did, how much damage would that do to the less EMP-sensitive economy in Iran? That leaves with a choice between conventional an H-bombs.
Which choice would the current administration take...???
“Which choice would the current administration take...???”
Neither. This current ‘administration’ would spin it as perpetrated by a rogue element with in Iran, or maybe an element without nation, and say that retaliation by launching such devestation upon the people of Iran or North Korea would be not only uncalled for, but an act of unlawful genocide. Furthermore, if such an event of aggression came to pass against the United States, I would absolutely believe that such would happen with prior knowledge of the administration, if not outright complicity, to complete the stated goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States”.
I wouldn't trust this administration to respond properly to an attack of this nature, either.
Indeed, if Obama responded with surrender, it would have the potential to set off a civil war in the USA -- and that might be what the attackers (and Obama) desire.
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