Israel/ Iran?
Sep 18th 2012, 11:33 am
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
The impact is more like a Dirty bomb, so fissionable material would be spread around the immediate vicinity and further depending on weather patterns etc. Nuclear reactors can't go off like bombs, they're made of not enough of the wrong sort of radioactive materials and you can't get them to critical mass. You'd be looking at something like Chernobyl minus the meltdown.
Sep 18th 2012, 11:37 am
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Sep 18th 2012, 11:41 am
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Sep 18th 2012, 12:08 pm
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Re: Israel/ Iran?
Though it may be that they want to go now before the Iranians move the plants into the deep bunkers....
Sep 18th 2012, 12:11 pm
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But, but, but - I'm sure I read that the Israeli's don't have the required bunker busting bombs to do the full job That leaves either US giving / selling them the munitions or going nuclear...
Though it may be that they want to go now before the Iranians move the plants into the deep bunkers....
Though it may be that they want to go now before the Iranians move the plants into the deep bunkers....
Remember how they reacted to Vuanutu, or whatever his name was?
Sep 18th 2012, 12:33 pm
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US military chiefs openly admitted the weapon was built to attack the fortified nuclear facilities of “rogue states” such as Iran and North Korea. Although the Pentagon insists that it is not aimed at a specific threat, unnamed officials within the ministry have repeatedly claimed the bomb is being tailor-made to disable Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordo, or at least to intimidate Tehran.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/13/wo...ack/index.html
Fordo, near the holy city of Qom, is "even more difficult" because it is deeply buried in a mountain, she said.
Dropping a bunker-busting bomb on Fordo actually might make it less vulnerable, Chorley said, since collapsing the entrance without destroying the facility would protect it from further bombing.
"It's questionable whether Israel is capable of destroying it in an air-launched attack," she said.
"Just getting Natanz and Arak without getting Fordo wouldn't be worth the risk," she argued, since Fordo is enriching uranium to higher levels than the other sites.
