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Old 07-06-09, 03:07 PM   #15
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Ah!

If a JDAM, or indeed any other conventional weapon, hits a nuclear facility, said facility may or may not be destroyed depending on the way it's constructed. Any material already stockpiled might similarly be destroyed or scattered (Which could be a pain to clean up, but not anything that has been done before).

If you want to know whether anything earth-shaking will happen beyond the normal explosions, the answer is no.
If Iran has plutonium stockpiled it will burn when exposed to O2, but no second order reation/detonation can be expected. Thats the physics.

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