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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (882286)8/24/2015 8:16:21 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575594
 
He didn't say that. Your war-mongering buddies want to go to war now on the off-chance Iran develops a nuke, That is the whole point of the Hitler analogy. Cut them off before they can do the deed. So, with that option on the table, we can flatten Iran any time we desire. Nukes or no. Delivery system or no.

I mean, we have already decided that illegal, pre-emptive wars are ok. Smirk let that particular cat out of the bag more than a decade ago. Given that they really don't know if they have a weapon until they test, and testing in secrecy hasn't been really possible for decades, there is lots of time to react.

It isn't easy to build a bomb. Scratch that. It is pretty easy to build a gun-type weapon. But very, very hard to build a much, much more useful implosion-type. Which someone like Iran would need. We did it in just a few years. But we mobilized a significant part of the economy and had most of the top nuclear scientists to do it. Look at the NorKs. They still haven't had a successful test. The first one was a complete dud. The explosion was just a chemical one. They did get a bit of a boost on the second one, but it still yielded but a small fraction of what it should have. I suppose you could argue that they built it with low yield on purpose, but that is a tougher problem than building something in the 10 kiloton range.
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