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2006-03-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
IRAN: US Trained Physicists Make A-Bomb For Mullahs
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Posted by Listen To Dogs 2006-03-16 07:56|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 We do indeed have the fear of a nuclear detonation here in the US.

However, we do not have any concern whatsoever that the strategic nuclear triad, which we built to prevail in an exchange with Mr. Mikhailov's former nation, is capable of erasing forever all evidence of Iran's "rich history" and "contributions to mankind."

That we have not already employed this capability and are taking great pains to avoid having to do so is evidence of moral values totally foreign to to Mr. Mikhailov.
Posted by JAB 2006-03-16 09:29||   2006-03-16 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Hat tip to Mrs. Davis re: list.

They fear a single nuclear explosion in their territory...

Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and all other rogue or Islamic nations with atomic weapon ambitions need to be put on notice that a single terrorist nuclear attack on American soil will result in the end of all life as they know it in the aforementioned countries. The list needs to be concise and made public immediately.

It is they who should fear a single nuclear explosion in our territory...
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 12:47||   2006-03-16 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Mrs. Davis?
Posted by 6 2006-03-16 14:18||   2006-03-16 14:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, Mrs. Davis, a long time participant here at Rantburg. I firmly believe in credit where credit is due, and she was the very first to suggest that every rogue nation or Islamic nuclear power be put on notice that all of them get glassed and Windexed if so much as a single terrorist nuclear attack goes down on American soil.

Personally, I cannot think of a better way of ensuring that all our enemies suddenly are confronted with a unanimous fate. It is a perfect reward for all their troubles and brings into stark relief the perils of proliferation for all of them to consider.
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-16 14:28||   2006-03-16 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Her stiletto is sorley missed!

whatsup with Mrs. D? classified?

I hope she's doing well.
Posted by RD 2006-03-16 15:47||   2006-03-16 15:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Once again America bites itself in the ass. We tried to force "democracy", er well, not really democracy, but the free market system per globalization on the Russkies. They were bankrupt. But they did respond in the capitalistic fashion. They tried to sell their technology. America blocked their nuclear sales to the "West", because we didn't want or need the competition. So they sold to whomever was buying. Ah hah ! The oil enriched Arabs. They bought all they could get. And, #2, as he so rightly points out, their scientists and technologists were all trained either in Europe or the US. Couldn't wait to get those rich Iranian grad students in to pay the freight. They had the cash and they paid. They learned what they wanted and needed. Now they are back there applying it. Certainly, they will produce a bomb. The yield may not be high, but the destruction will still be enormous. Even today, look at the grad student population in American universities. Is this some of our critical infrastructure ? And, finally, the most troubling aspect is that the former logic of assured destruction holds no meaning for Muslims. They look forward to death in the death culture. They don't mind a few million lost as long as they can create something horrific that will not ever be forgotten.
Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-03-16 16:50||   2006-03-16 16:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Having scientists is all very well, but most of their work will of necessity remain theoretical so long as the technological infrastructure to produce the necessary tools is lacking. Leonardo DaVinci invented a great many fascinating things, which his world lacked the tools to construct, and the materials out of which to construct them. It must be horribly frustrating for Iran's Western-trained nuclear physicists and nuclear engineers to know that if only they had a solid machine-tool industry and a large number of Western-trained technicians and US-trained mechanical engineers, that whole pesky nuclear weapon thingy would have been solved (and missile-mounted) years ago. As it is, they are severely limited (not limited enough, unfortunately) by having to sneak in equipment purchases from Germany, Russia, etc. One almost feels for the poor darlings...
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-16 18:41||   2006-03-16 18:41|| Front Page Top

#8 As for darling Mrs. D.: once upon a time there was an equally darling Mr. Davis, who occasionally became impatient with me for arguing with trolls, trying to help them to understand the real world, although he was ever gentlemanly even in his impatience. Mr. D. was one of the originals here, back when they were still fancy Rantburgundians, not the simpler Rantburgers of today. In those halcyon days a young lady student from the UAE or environs used to come by, who called herself "Gentle", trying to pursuade us that Islam is a religion of peace and love and nurturing happiness, ignoring the existence of the too many fascist and jihad-bound Islamists that work so hard make themselves loathed around the world today. Young Miss Gentle was not very good about doing the readings we assigned to her (ok, I was the only one who provided reading lists, but still), or even in following the logic of those who countered her arguments.

Anyway, and as it happens, a troll (as we then assumed) stole Mr. D's nym (or is it nic? The terminology here does confuse me), and spewed endless hateful nonsense over Fred's threads. And thus Mrs. D appeared, so that we should not think that Mr. D had a monumental mid-life crisis. The story later appeared that actually Mr. D and Gentle were having an affair and had run off together, and Mrs. D ever charged me that should Mr. Wife come across him in his travels, to either send him home to his loving and anxious wife or shoot the sonufabitch -- depending on her mood.

But it has been a very long time since Mrs. D appeared, quietly amused by those who, not knowing the back story, treated her as an elderly version of someone like me.

Submitted this day by
Rantburg's amateur historianess
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-16 19:01||   2006-03-16 19:01|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL. I though the Secret RB Cabal had decided that the Davis gender transformation was to remain secret!
Posted by Glert Thetch2165 2006-03-16 19:05||   2006-03-16 19:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, he hasn't been around for so long, Glert, that I thought it safe to share the rest of the story.

There's a Secret Rantburg Cabal? Why didn't anyone tell me?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-16 19:37||   2006-03-16 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Cuz then we'd have to kill you, of course. We don't want to be forced into such a lose-lose situation. :)

*secret sign*
Posted by Glert Thetch2165 2006-03-16 19:48||   2006-03-16 19:48|| Front Page Top

#12 hey TW that clears it up!

*clueless sign*

ยป:-)
Posted by RD 2006-03-16 20:30||   2006-03-16 20:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Trailing Wife (dba RB historian) Could you like furnish a road map? You know, a diagram of the RB Genesis and evolution.

Was there ever a Rantburg "big bang" or anything?
Posted by Captain America 2006-03-16 21:14||   2006-03-16 21:14|| Front Page Top

#14 That's before my time, Captain A. But check the archives -- Fred's first post was on 9/11/01. Also, see here and here. I didn't find this place until just before PD morphed into .com, which thoroughly confused me. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-16 22:30||   2006-03-16 22:30|| Front Page Top

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