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Originally posted by woodwardjnr
reply to post by JohhnyBGoodSurely it would be suicide for Iran to actually use a bomb on anyone, it would result in the total destruction of Iran and it's entire population. But, looking at those countries that haven't been attacked by the US they have one thing in common. A nuclear deterrent.
Originally posted by IsraeliGuy
I laugh at people who take their news from infowars. I will be very interested in TrueAmerican's opinions once the report is finished.
This is nothing more than an opinion piece on a conspiracy website (infowars? really? lol).
hows that iranian polot with mexic an drug cartels thing going lol
Originally posted by AllUrChips
So NO SMOKING GUN huh? Is this why we havent heard much war banter in the last day or so?
www.infowars.com...
According to the article:According Washington experts, the much hyped IAEA nuclear intelligence estimate promised to deliver the smoking gun that could somehow turn into a mushroom cloud, but in fact, the report contained nothing more than pedestrian observations baked in with existing speculative western pro-war innuendo on the development of Iranian nuclear weaponsedit on 7-11-2011 by AllUrChips because: (no reason given)edit on 7-11-2011 by AllUrChips because: (no reason given)
key word maybe, so how will Israel react to this?
The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a critical report Tuesday saying that it has "serious concerns" about Iran's nuclear program and has obtained "credible" information that the Islamic republic may be developing nuclear weapons.
so it is a threat to Israel after all, so one could read this , this way an other is , more fuel to the fire to strike Iran. and the you this the out lined report www.newsday.com... some key points from the report
The IAEA report, the most detailed to date on the Iranian program's military scope, found no evidence that Iran has made a strategic decision to actually build a bomb. But its nuclear program is more ambitious and structured, and more progress has been made than previously known.
will be interesting days to come , " Israel just launched a major attack on Iran" might be the next head line
In its latest report on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency outlines the sum of its knowledge on the Islamic Republic's alleged secret nuclear weapons work, including:
--Clandestine procurement of equipment and design information needed to make such arms;
--High explosives testing and detonator development to set off a nuclear charge;
--Computer modeling of a core of a nuclear warhead;
--Preparatory work for a nuclear weapons test, and
--Developing and mounting a nuclear payload onto its Shahab 3 intermediate range missile -- a weapon that can reach Israel, Iran's arch foe.
Ahead of the report's release, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned of a possible Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear program.
Originally posted by Zaphod
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
reply to post by JohhnyBGoodSurely it would be suicide for Iran to actually use a bomb on anyone, it would result in the total destruction of Iran and it's entire population. But, looking at those countries that haven't been attacked by the US they have one thing in common. A nuclear deterrent.
The concern is that Iran will provide such weapons to it's proxies such as Hezbola which is more likely to use them. If a weapon were to be detonated in Israel by Hezbola, who do you attack? Lebanon? Iran? The 'if they use one they will be glass' answer filling all of these threads get complicated if this occurs. In this scenario could you prove the source of the bomb was Iran in such a way to be sure you attacked the right country? Could Hezbola use such a weapon even if Iran provided it for protection and the group went against their controllers? Who do you attack then?
35. Based on the Agency’s continued study of information which the Agency has acquired from many
Member States and through its own efforts, the Agency remains concerned about the possible existence in
Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organizations,
including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile. Since the last report of the
Director General on 25 February 2011, the Agency has received further information related to such possible
undisclosed nuclear related activities, which is currently being assessed by the Agency. As previously
reported by the Director General, there are indications that certain of these activities may have continued
beyond 2004.
40
The following points refer to examples of activities for which clarifications remain necessary
in seven particular areas of concern:
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• Neutron generator and associated diagnostics: experiments involving the explosive compression of
uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons.
• Uranium conversion and metallurgy: producing uranium metal from fluoride compounds and its
manufacture into components relevant to a nuclear device.
• High explosives manufacture and testing: developing, manufacturing and testing of explosive
components suitable for the initiation of high explosives in a converging spherical geometry.
• Exploding bridgewire (EBW) detonator studies, particularly involving applications necessitating
high simultaneity: possible nuclear significance of the use of EBW detonators.
• Multipoint explosive initiation and hemispherical detonation studies involving highly instrumented
experiments: integrating EBW detonators in the development of a system to initiate hemispherical
high explosive charges and conducting full scale experiments, work which may have benefitted from
the assistance of foreign expertise.
• High voltage firing equipment and instrumentation for explosives testing over long distances and
possibly underground: conducting tests to confirm that high voltage firing equipment is suitable for
the reliable firing of EBW detonators over long distances.
• Missile re-entry vehicle redesign activities for a new payload assessed as being nuclear in nature:
conducting design work and modelling studies involving the removal of the conventional high
explosive payload from the warhead of the Shahab-3 missile and replacing it with a spherical nuclear
payload.