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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (208751)	10/26/2004 6:55:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574851

Ted, In all seriousness, Israel's arsenal dwarfs anything the Arabs have. The likelihood of them attacking Israel in any concerted effort is nil to zero. Israel castrated them long ago. The scales are likely to tip once Iran gets their hands on a nuke. Once that happens, do you think the doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction" will prevent a nuclear war from breaking out? Oh I don't know......maybe not.......but I suspect Israel's nuke arsenal will act as a deterrent: "According to retired US Army Colonel Warner D. Farr, M.D., Israel is the fifth largest nuclear superpower in the world. By 1967, Israel already had 15 atomic bombs in its arsenal. In 1976, their nuclear arsenal grew to 15 to 20 nukes, and by 1980 jumped to 200. According to Farr, in 1997, Israel now has over 400 nuclear and hydrogen weapons. A hydrogen bomb is a boosted, stronger nuclear bomb, with 100 to 1,000 stronger power than a regular nuclear bomb. This bomb produces immense heat and a shock wave that affects an extensive area, and despite this, it produces a smaller amount of fallout and radioactive contamination. The hydrogen bombs are considered to be a sophisticated, expensive and complicated weapon to develop. [Source: USAF Counter-Proliferation Center}" peaceheroes.com "Israel could potentially have produced a few dozen nuclear warheads in the period 1970-1980, and might have possessed 100 to 200 warheads by the mid-1990s. In 1986 descriptions and photographs of Israeli nuclear warheads were published in the London Sunday Times of a purported underground bomb factory. The photographs were taken by Mordechai Vanunu, a dismissed Israeli nuclear technician. His information led some experts to conclude that Israel had a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices at that time." fas.org

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (208751)	10/27/2004 12:39:22 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574851

The scales are likely to tip once Iran gets their hands on a nuke. Once that happens, do you think the doctrine of "Mutually Assured Destruction" will prevent a nuclear war from breaking out? We'll see (perhaps), but keep in mind that Iran doesn't even border Israel, and the oppressed Palestinians are Arabs, not Persians like Iranians, so it seems doubtful that Iran would nuke Israel and suffer the likely resulting destruction of Iran for "anti-Zionist idealism". In other words, The Persians don't really care enough about homeless Palestinian Arabs to fight their fight for them (and suffer the consequences), even if they have nuclear weapons.