Comments on: Leak of Israel’s Plans to Nuke Iran Smell Like BS http://www.bloggernews.net/13634 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: ip >short for insane_pschiatrist http://www.bloggernews.net/13634#comment-9847 ip >short for insane_pschiatrist Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:54:18 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13634#comment-9847 i predict israel will goto war in april, with someone to the east of them, cant say, but on wednesday in april the games will begin. lets hope im wrong, but highly unlikely. if im right the un will soon see an end to their lolligagging, and the middle east will be in turmoil for quiet a while, again. the fact that fingers pointing to who leaked it , is useless, either way if it were israel, it was a scare tactic, if it were iran, it was a move to warn the un, but it doesnt matter if the un hears about it, they dont do anything, but sit around and suck up us tax dollars. so " let the games begin" by the way, a nuked iran would be a better iran, but when can we nuke nkorea? and pakistan and saudi arabia and syria and jordan and egypt, but not in that order>? i predict israel will goto war in april, with someone to the east of them, cant say, but on wednesday in april the games will begin. lets hope im wrong, but highly unlikely.
if im right the un will soon see an end to their lolligagging, and the middle east will be in turmoil for quiet a while, again. the fact that fingers pointing to who leaked it , is useless, either way if it were israel, it was a scare tactic, if it were iran, it was a move to warn the un, but it doesnt matter if the un hears about it, they dont do anything, but sit around and suck up us tax dollars. so ” let the games begin” by the way, a nuked iran would be a better iran, but when can we nuke nkorea? and pakistan and saudi arabia and syria and jordan and egypt, but not in that order>?

]]> By: Robert VerBruggen http://www.bloggernews.net/13634#comment-1084 Robert VerBruggen Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:11:07 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/13634#comment-1084 "A tactical nuclear weapon would likely do very little for a protected underground bunker." Then why are they called "bunker-busters"? I'm no expert on this very specific situation, but by and large tactical nukes of the bunker-buster variety are indeed meant for "a protected underground bunker." From the story: "Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear 'bunker-busters', according to several Israeli military sources." Some info on bunker-busters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster (Money quote from Wikipedia: "These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers buried deep in the ground.") Also, the story is specifically attributed to sources in the Israeli military. Unless the publication is lying, or those sources are Iranian spies, you're wrong in positing the leak was from Iranian sources. “A tactical nuclear weapon would likely do very little for a protected underground bunker.”

Then why are they called “bunker-busters”? I’m no expert on this very specific situation, but by and large tactical nukes of the bunker-buster variety are indeed meant for “a protected underground bunker.”

From the story:

“Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear ‘bunker-busters’, according to several Israeli military sources.”

Some info on bunker-busters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster

(Money quote from Wikipedia: “These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers buried deep in the ground.”)

Also, the story is specifically attributed to sources in the Israeli military. Unless the publication is lying, or those sources are Iranian spies, you’re wrong in positing the leak was from Iranian sources.

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