Meanwhile, out back, the faithful Muslims drop notes down a well to the 12th Imam - the Mahdi (no joke)
Posted on 08/05/2024 11:55:30 AM PDT by bitt
The prevailing logic regarding the Iranian nuclear weapons program is this. The Iranians are on the verge of having sufficient highly enriched uranium (HEU) to make several nuclear weapons. After they acquire this material they will then have to engineer the nuclear weapons into which this HEU will be placed. At some point in this process, the Israelis will stage a preemptive strike and eliminate the threat. It will all be fine.
3 min video Iran testing nuke?
Why? Why do we assume that the Iranians will act this way? They know as well as we do that the Israelis are prepared to strike first. Is it likely then that they will proceed in a fashion that will allow the Israelis, or for that matter, the United States to eliminate an Iranian nuclear weapons threat? Isn’t it much more likely that the boys in charge in Tehran have thought this through and made their own plans?
The Iranians have been working on nuclear weapons for decades.
Throughout that time period, there has been extensive reporting on their efforts to solve the engineering problems associated with nuclear weapons. This includes work on solving the complex issues related to getting an implosion device to function properly and not just blow itself apart and fail.
The Iranians have extensive contacts with both the Chinese and the North Koreans. These are both nuclear powers. Isn’t it entirely possible that Iranian nuclear weapons will be copies of existing proven designs from one of these nations? Building a weapon from a template significantly simplifies the process as we saw with the Soviets. They stole everything that wasn’t nailed down from the Manhattan Project and closed the nuclear weapons gap with us in a matter of a few years. Their first bomb was effectively a carbon copy of one we had built.
The Iranians have a massive arsenal of ballistic missiles. Do we think they built all these without giving any thought to which one they would use to carry a nuclear warhead? Isn’t it much more likely that the bombs they will build will match precisely with the known dimensions of the capsule on an existing missile?
In short, shouldn’t we at least consider the possibility that as soon as the Iranians have the HEU they need they will be able to assemble and launch a nuke within a very, very short period of time?
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After the election in 2008, when W was fixin’ to vacate the White House, I figured he would do the right thing and destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities. Instead, he kicked the can down the road...
They will glow in the dark........
They probably already have the Nuke, we just don’t know about it yet. My guess is some Palestinian is going to walk into Israel and unleash hell. I pray I’m wrong.
They’ve had them for a while. That’s my guess. Delivery systems are another matter altogether.
The Iranians have been a week away from having a nuke for 25 years. 🙄
With the tunnels destroyed they’ll have to fly it in which complicates delivery which buys a little time but not much.
We may find out another way.
I think the nuclear threat is what this whole war in The Middle East is really about. Israel knows and is trying to close the tunnels and create a land barrier between themselves and possible hostiles that could detonate a bomb on or near their border.
A military friend told me once “a mushroom cloud is a signal.”
They will glow in the dark........
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The Mad Mullahs will welcome it, as it will help the 12th Imam climb out of the Well he crawled into in the 7th Century. He will go on to exterminate all of humanity, aka send everyone to Paradise.
Using nukes is their goal, since it fits with their Shia 12er “religion”. Glowing is a small price for them to pay, they believe.
[After the election in 2008, when W was fixin’ to vacate the White House, I figured he would do the right thing and destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities. Instead, he kicked the can down the road...]
“Why do we assume that the Iranians will act this way? They know as well as we do that the Israelis are prepared to strike first. Is it likely then that they will proceed in a fashion that will allow the Israelis, or for that matter, the United States to eliminate an Iranian nuclear weapons threat? Isn’t it much more likely that the boys in charge in Tehran have thought this through and made their own plans? “
The author is a dumbass.
HEU can be detected at great distances. It can’t be hidden except deep, deep underground and becomes immediately visible once on the surface.
IF Iran had the means to make a plutonium bomb, then we should be worried about them doing so secretly. It only has about a 50ft detection distance.
The prevailing logic regarding the Iranian nuclear weapons program is this. The Iranians are on the verge of having sufficient highly enriched uranium (HEU) to make several nuclear weapons. After they acquire this material they will then have to engineer the nuclear weapons into which this HEU will be placed. At some point in this process, the Israelis will stage a preemptive strike and eliminate the threat. It will all be fine.
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The ME situation present kamala a big decision on putting sharpiro on the ticket
That’s right. There is no Mutually Assured Destruction deterrent with them.
NUKE Tehran NOW
Christ comes back in the clouds.
Their guy crawls out of a hole in the ground.....................
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