Top Secret?
Is it me, or should this not be common knowledge?
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. 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.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.
Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.
"Secret plans?" What "secret plans??" Why is this being reported to the world, including the intended target? Am I missing something??
JASmius adds: I don't think it's much of a secret, personally. Every country has plans on the books to deal with every conceivable war scenario; heck, even into the twenthieth century we had a plan that covered war with Great Britain. So the notion of Israel having devised a strategy for taking out Iran's nuclear facilities is hardly startling; only if they hadn't would my jaw be on the floor.
The question, as Hugh Hewitt alludes to this morning, is whether the stubbornly entrenched milksop regime of Ehud Olmert would actually activate this war plan. Given the indecision and incompetence they displayed last summer against Hezbollah in Lebanon, count me as another member of the skeptical camp.
Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. 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.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.
Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.
"Secret plans?" What "secret plans??" Why is this being reported to the world, including the intended target? Am I missing something??
JASmius adds: I don't think it's much of a secret, personally. Every country has plans on the books to deal with every conceivable war scenario; heck, even into the twenthieth century we had a plan that covered war with Great Britain. So the notion of Israel having devised a strategy for taking out Iran's nuclear facilities is hardly startling; only if they hadn't would my jaw be on the floor.
The question, as Hugh Hewitt alludes to this morning, is whether the stubbornly entrenched milksop regime of Ehud Olmert would actually activate this war plan. Given the indecision and incompetence they displayed last summer against Hezbollah in Lebanon, count me as another member of the skeptical camp.
posted by Jennifer at 3:14 AM
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