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2014-05-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Iran, Not Israel, Faces An Existential Threat

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Why am I not surprised?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-05-07 03:24|| 2014-05-07 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, but why would the Juices use 5? Everyone knows, the science is settled, the concensus is in, that one ESM burst is all it takes. Really. You can read about it on the internets.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-07 08:38|| 2014-05-07 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The preferred Israeli weapon is the neutron bomb. Saudi Arabia has been warned that 'never again' means that Mecca and Medina could be made a radiation wasteland for one hundred years if the existence of Israel were threatened.

Posted by Thrusotch and Tenille7340 2014-05-07 09:43|| 2014-05-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Would somebody who knows their nukes have a go at comment 3?

Posted by Grunter 2014-05-07 13:31|| 2014-05-07 13:31|| Front Page Top

#5 A neutron bomb or officially known as one type of Enhanced Radiation Weapon is a low yield fission-fusion thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) in which the burst of neutrons generated by a fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components. The weapon's radiation case, usually made from relatively thick uranium, lead or steel in a standard bomb, are instead made of as thin a material as possible to facilitate the greatest escape of fusion produced neutrons. The "usual" nuclear weapon yieldexpressed as kilotons of TNT equivalentis not a measure of a neutron weapon's destructive power. It refers only to the energy released (mostly heat and blast), and does not express the lethal effect of neutron radiation on living organisms.

Compared to a pure fission bomb with an identical explosive yield, a neutron bomb would emit about ten times the amount of neutron radiation. In a fission bomb at sea level, the total radiation pulse energy which is composed of both gamma rays and neutrons is approximately 5% of the entire energy released; in the neutron bomb it would be closer to 40%. Furthermore, the neutrons emitted by a neutron bomb have a much higher average energy level, closer to (14 MeV) than those released during a fission reaction (12 MeV).[8] Technically speaking, all low yield nuclear weapons are radiation weapons, that is including the non-enhanced variant, from 0 up to about 10 kilotons in yield, all have prompt neutron radiation, as their most far reaching lethal component, after which point the lethal blast and thermal effects radius begins to out-range the lethal ionizing radiation radius. Enhanced radiation weapons also fall into this same yield range and simply enhance the intensity and range of the neutron dose for a given yield.

Posted by Fleremble Flusort1165 2014-05-07 13:40|| 2014-05-07 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 If deterrence doesn't work against the irrational people in charge of Iran, then maybe both Iran and Israel face an existential threat from Iran's government.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-07 14:03|| 2014-05-07 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The difference is that Israel wouldn't use it unless it is very necessary. Iran would use it at the drop of a hat and Dinnerjacket has often said as much.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-07 15:50|| 2014-05-07 15:50|| Front Page Top

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