Saudis Would Allow Israel to Attack Iran

[Raptor1]

We don't know anything, we don't even know there's going to be a strike...

Originally Posted by Raptor1

We don't know anything, we don't even know there's going to be a strike...

You are correct of course but it never hurts to run through the tactics available. Does it?

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

We don't know anything, we don't even know there's going to be a strike...

Sombody knows, plus look at the timing with the enmies of Iran on your side not to mention the internal conflict of who is lying to who about the election.

What happens when a j bomb hits a nuclear installation anyway?

[Raptor1]

What's a j bomb?

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

What's a j bomb?

One of those electronic guided bombs ... The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)

[Raptor1]

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.

Originally Posted by Raptor1

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.

[Steel_Tomb]

Short of occupying Iran, there is no way to stop them from gaining nuclear arms if they so wish. We can destroy facilities but the knowledge remains, and they can rebuild their program again and again. Another point is that if the Iranians value a nuclear weapons program I think they would have it spread around the country, so there could be the main facility but there's nothing to say they haven't got other compounds hidden underground throughout Iran.

That's the sad truth of the matter, Israel and the US or any other nation for that fact can bomb parts of Iran to their hearts content... but we can't stop them forever. As much as I hate the Iranian regime, there's nothing we can do to stop them... a ground invasion would just radicalise the population and make Achjaminidad's (sp?) position stronger.

Originally Posted by geetrue

Sombody knows, plus look at the timing with the enmies of Iran on your side not to mention the internal conflict of who is lying to who about the election.

What happens when a j bomb hits a nuclear installation anyway?

Don't get all soft hearted here. Every country gets the government it deserves and if that government hasn't taken steps to protect its people, as can be seen out of the recent images, then folks will die. The deaths from radialogical debris won't be worse than Three Mile Island, and far less than Chernobyl.