The Iran Nuclear Program thread
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All clear. Now let’s see what’s the damage
@bachophile said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
All clear. Now let’s see what’s the damage
stay safe!!
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@jon-nyc Interesting video. Just wondering why it was necessary to send decoy planes to the west.
(Minor point, but Who are they trying to fool? I think everybody pretty much knew what was potentially going to happen. The Iran nuclear plants are so big and so complex, it is not like you could pack things up, put them in a car trunk and drive it somewhere else.)
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@jon-nyc said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
We’ll see what comes of this.
It’s not the 70’s. That will negatively affect UAB, Oman, and Asian countries. China, Japan, South Korea, etc… Very little of that oil goes to the west.
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@Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
Wow. Fourteen MOPs.
Imagine the impact. They drop a 30,000lb skinny aerodynamic bomb from 40,000 ft. It’s going Mach 1+ when it hits. 80% of the weight is the casing. It can go through 200ft of 5,000 psi concrete. Then the 5,000 bomb goes off.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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How about the Trump admin managing not to leak any details of this op before it happened. I'm proud of them.
@Horace said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
How about the Trump admin managing not to leak any details of this op before it happened. I'm proud of them.
Apparently there were leaks if you run in conservative columnist circles.
Also NYT gave a heads up that it was imminent but that was an Israeli source.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
-Cormac McCarthy -
@Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
Wow. Fourteen MOPs.
Imagine the impact. They drop a 30,000lb skinny aerodynamic bomb from 40,000 ft. It’s going Mach 1+ when it hits. 80% of the weight is the casing. It can go through 200ft of 5,000 psi concrete. Then the 5,000 bomb goes off.
@jon-nyc said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
@Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
Wow. Fourteen MOPs.
Imagine the impact. They drop a 30,000lb skinny aerodynamic bomb from 40,000 ft. It’s going Mach 1+ when it hits. 80% of the weight is the casing. It can go through 200ft of 5,000 psi concrete. Then the 5,000 bomb goes off.
They are effectively Rods from God weapon systems.
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@Horace said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
How about the Trump admin managing not to leak any details of this op before it happened. I'm proud of them.
Apparently there were leaks if you run in conservative columnist circles.
Also NYT gave a heads up that it was imminent but that was an Israeli source.
@jon-nyc said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
@Horace said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:
How about the Trump admin managing not to leak any details of this op before it happened. I'm proud of them.
Apparently there were leaks if you run in conservative columnist circles.
Also NYT gave a heads up that it was imminent but that was an Israeli source.
One step away from a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Careful there. I'm sure the buzz didn't make its way to twitter, out of deference to the administration.
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Categorical statements like "no threat" are always wrong. It's just a matter of whether one wants to interpret language with some good will towards the speaker.
I feel there are plenty enough unknowns here to at least allow that reasonable people can be on either side of the discussion of whether this was a good idea for the US.
For my part, I'll go ahead and Trust Israel and the US intelligence apparatuses, and cautiously take them at their word that the world is today a safer place for both Israel and the US, as compared to what it was before Israel attacked Iran. Plus, those bombs were pretty awesome. Amazingly awesome.
