Israel is between a rock and a hard place. If it sits idly by and waits for the U.S. to take concrete action against Iran it may be too late to prevent a nuclear strike against Tel Aviv. If it decides to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities it may only delay the development of a nuclear bomb while bringing about costly retaliatory attacks by Iran, and possibly by Hezbollah and Hamas to boot.
IRAN IS BUILDING A BIG NUCLEAR BOMB, CONFIRM INSPECTORS
By Ryan Jones
Israel Today
November 29, 2012
For the handful of people who might still believe Iran's nuclear program is benign, an Associated Press report confirmed by inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that not only is Iran building a nuclear bomb, it is building a big one.
Earlier this week, the AP reported on diagrams it had obtained showing calculations for "nuclear explosive yield." The desired payload was 50 kilotons.
IAEA officials who spoke to the news agency confirmed that the diagram was the same as the one discovered by inspectors recently at an Iranian nuclear facility.
The IAEA included the diagram in a report on Iran's nuclear program, but some in the international community continued to downplay the possibility that Iran was seeking atomic weapons.
According to the AP report, more than a few IAEA officials are frustrated by the way the Western powers are handling what is clearly a very dangerous and urgent situation.
One of the inspectors noted that the diagram could not possibly be construed as anything other than plans for a weapon, debunking all Iranian claims that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only.
It should also be pointed out that if all Iran wanted to achieve was a demonstration that it had nuclear capabilities, it could do so with a much smaller bomb. Fifty kilotons is three times the explosive yield of the bombs that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
A bomb that large in likely intended for use against an enemy.
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You don't expend that much in the way of resources and catch that much heat from the international community to build something you don't intend to use. Sadam ran an information game, a bluff, he wanted people to THINK he had WMDs and he convinced us enough that we killed him. But they weren't there. He might have even believed his own propoganda. That isn't what is happening there. These guys are not running a scam, this isn't some complex misinformation scheme. This is the real deal. We are talking about dangerous, psychoitic children with nukes. Bad things can happen. Probably will in fact.
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