Israel planning tactical nuclear strike on Iran

[Dover]

Israel planning tactical nuclear strike on Iran



BRITAIN: Israel has drawn up plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities in a tactical nuclear strike using low-yield atomic "bunker busting" bombs, The Sunday Times said.

The weekly newspaper quoted several Israeli military sources as telling it that two of the Jewish state's air force squadrons are training to use the weapons for a single strike.

It said the plans involved sending conventional, laser-guided missiles to open up "tunnels" in the targets before "mini-nukes" with a force the equivalent of one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb are fired in.

The plan is similar to one said in a report in the New Yorker magazine last April to have been considered by the United States. The White House dismissed investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's article as "ill-informed".

The three prime targets are said to be the enrichment plant at Natanz, a uranium conversion facility near Isfahan and a heavy water reactor at Arak, all south of the capital Tehran.

"As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished," one of the unnamed sources was quoted as saying....>

http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/01/08/wld01.asp

[David Dunham]

1. A first use of nukes by Israel would boomerang on Israel

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. and except for AIPAC and COngress, most of America

would rise up against Israel.

I wonder if they understand that?

[solara]

3. Shame on them all..this plan is an obscenity n/t

[montanto]

4. well, here we go!

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[Behind the Aegis]

8. Maybe because it was not LBN?

Just because it is "LBN" to you, doesn't make it so for the rest of the world (or DU). And why the bitch-fest about I/P? Anyone can post here, not just members.

[aquart]

6. Oh, gosh. I hope it's not a SECRET plan.

Because anyone reading DU would have learned about it 200 times since Saturday.