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2005-09-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US drawing up Nuclear Contingency Plans for Iran

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Posted by Chitch Glick9658 2005-09-14 16:51|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Um, we had Nuclear contingency plans for Iran before. Nutting new here. Talk like this gives the MSM and L³ the heebeegeebies is all.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-14 18:41|| 2005-09-14 18:41|| Front Page Top

#2 This may have be part of the program ...

Bunker buster update
The Pentagon and Energy Department will resume research on a new earth-penetrating nuclear bomb, if Congress approves funds for it contained in the fiscal 2006 budget.
According to a Congressional Research Service report, the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) will be based on a modified B-83 high-yield nuclear warhead that is needed for U.S. military forces to be able to bomb deeply buried targets, such as underground nuclear facilities or leadership bunkers.
The penetrator could be used if President Bush decides to knock out the nuclear programs of North Korea or Iran. Both countries use rock-hardened and underground facilities for their militaries.
The new warhead is needed to replace the current warhead in the U.S. arsenal that is capable of burrowing before detonating, the B-61-11.
The CRS reported Aug. 2 that the B-61-11 "cannot penetrate certain types of terrain in which hardened underground facilities may be located."
Critics of the warhead in Congress, spurred by anti-nuclear activists, succeeded in cutting off funds for the new penetrator for 2005. The Bush administration is seeking $8.5 million for fiscal 2006 to continue studying the RNEP.
The CRS quotes Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the need for the bomb. "Our combatant commander [who] is charged by this nation to worry about countering the kind of targets, deeply buried targets, certainly thinks there's a need for this study," Gen. Myers said, referring to Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050909-121036-9147r_page2.htm

Posted by Omort Gloluse2712 2005-09-14 19:02|| 2005-09-14 19:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember the "rods from God"?

If they haven't been deployed yet, they need to be.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-14 19:22|| 2005-09-14 19:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Sharp Spears.....mmmmm

Posted by john">john 2005-09-14 20:36|| 2005-09-14 20:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Whaddya mean "drawing up"?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-14 21:43|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-09-14 21:43|| Front Page Top

#6 You mean the "Flying Crowbar" yep,

Calculate the cost of putting a few tons of steel in orbit, and you'll see why it wasn't practical.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-14 21:47|| 2005-09-14 21:47|| Front Page Top

#7 It doesn't need to be from orbit...

From Jack Wheeler:

Blowing it up like the Israelis blew up Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor in 1981 (with bombs dropped by F-16s) is obviously not the best way -- far too public, releasing a media firestorm. Far better to destroy it quietly, safely, stealthily, and mysteriously.

With a spear. A steel rod forty feet long and four inches in diameter, fin-stabilized, with a needle-sharp tungsten-carbide tip, equipped with a small JDAM guidance package including a GPS. It is non-explosive; there is no warhead. You've heard of smart bombs. This is a smart spear.

You take a half-dozen of these Smart Spears up in a high-altitude bomber, like a B2 or B52. and drop them over Yongbyon at 50 or 60,000 feet. The Smart Spears have such a big sectional density that it will be like a vacuum drop -- with no wind resistance, they will be going faster than the speed of sound when they hit their target.

Posted by Flomong Threng1711 2005-09-14 22:39|| 2005-09-14 22:39|| Front Page Top

#8 THe Iranians = Norkies > prefer to be invaded, as evident by the growth of military and militia units dedicated to anti-US domestic insurgency. They already know it doesn't matter whether they admit or infer to having one nuke or 1000 - the USA and Dubya will still be blamed for everything, as the GWOT for the Dems and aligned International Leftists-Socialists is about forcing PC "justified" Socialism upon free America. For me the more vital issue or question is what kind of severe event(s) will entice or cause the USA to invade Iran-North Korea!? As implied by one of their own Generals, the Chicoms are prepared to sacrifice all Chinese cities east of the Xian River, includ but not limited to Beijing, in any Sino-US nuke conflict. The Iranians = NK = Chicoms = Saddam > are prepared to give up ground in return for preplanned guerilla actions. Saddam nor any other despot could NOT have lasted this long in power iff the Iraqi peoples had all this hidden arms caches. I'LL SAY IT AGAIN - THE LEFTIES HAVE NO PROB WID DUBYA AND HIS DEMOLEFT-ALLEGED "FASCIST" ADMIN WAGING WAR AROUND THE WORLD AS LONG AS A COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST, AND ANTI-SOVEREIGN AMERIKA UNDER SOCIE-COMMIE OWG AND WORLD ORDER IS THE FINAL, PERMANENT OUTCOME.

Posted by JOsephMendiola 2005-09-14 22:40|| 2005-09-14 22:40|| Front Page Top

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