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Originally posted by Seveen
reply to post by Soshh
Im sorry did I hurt your feelings? So by your sarcasm about my reading skills I must have misread the part where you said (and I'm paraphrasing) that hopefully they'd find something. I'm only curious if it's because that means more money for you considering it may be your job to fight others wars for them. If I were you I'd be more upset by being called war hungry over insane. To me it's an insult to ones character, to imply that one is hoping that a country has nukes due to the fact that if they do I get more "work." So why didn't you address that? Is it true? Are you a money hungry war monger? Or was I mistaken when I read that "hopefully they'll find something."
Which is it. I'm either wrong or right. Please explain further and it would def tone down the accusations that you might be what was implied in this post.
Israel is widely believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).[1] The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program.[2] Officially Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons.
Although no official statistics exist, it has been estimated that Israel possesses 75-400 nuclear weapons, including thermonuclear weapons in the megaton range.[3][4][5] Delivery mechanisms include Jericho intercontinental ballistic missiles, with a range of 11,500 km.[6] Additionally, Israel is believed to have an offshore nuclear second-strike capability, using submarine launched nuclear-capable cruise missiles.[7] The Israeli government maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity on whether it has nuclear weapons, saying only that it would not be the first to "introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East."[8] Former International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei regarded Israel as a state possessing nuclear weapons.[9] Much of what is known about Israel's nuclear program comes from revelations in 1986 by Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Dimona nuclear facility, who served an 18-year jail sentence as a result. Israel has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but supports establishment of a Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction.
Iran has signed treaties repudiating possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including the Biological Weapons Convention,[1] the Chemical Weapons Convention,[2] and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)[3] and is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction. Over 100,000 Iranian troops and civilians were victims of chemical weapons during the 1980s Iran–Iraq War.[4][5] On ideological grounds, a public and categorical religious decree (fatwa) against the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons has been issued by the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic Ali Khamenei, and the rest of the clerical establishment.[6][7] Iran has stated its uranium enrichment program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.[8][9] The IAEA has confirmed the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran, but has also said it "needs to have confidence in the absence of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme."[10][11] The IAEA has pointed out that Iran is not implementing the requirements of UN Security Council Resolutions and needs to cooperate to clarify outstanding issues and meet requirement to provide early design information on its nuclear facilities.[12]
US intelligence predicted in August 2005 that Iran could have the key ingredients for a nuclear weapon by 2015.[42] On 25 October 2007, the United States declared the Revolutionary Guards a "proliferator of weapons of mass destruction", and the Quds Force a "supporter of terrorism".[43] Iran responded that "it is incongruent for a country [US] who itself is a producer of weapons of mass destruction to take such a decision."[43] Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the IAEA at the time, said he had no evidence Iran was building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with their rhetoric.
Originally posted by Becoming
Nobody will believe Iran has a nuke until they actually use it.
Originally posted by Becoming
Nobody will believe Iran has a nuke until they actually use it. Even then most here won't even believe it was Iran who detonated it. Irans President could go on television and say they have the bomb and most here would say that its a translation error.
Sad really.
Originally posted by Faiol
I stopped reading at "Israel"