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Environment & Energy

OKIsItJustMe

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21. And in 40 years…

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #20)

Wed Mar 7, 2012, 06:06 PM

Mar 2012

Seymour Hersh is a pretty reliable source. If he says that Israel was able to miniaturize nuclear weapons by 1973, by 2012…

I wouldn’t bet against them.

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Iran was the first country to bomb a nuclear reactor. [View all] bananas Mar 2012 OP

The difference is, Iran was already at war with Iraq - the US and Israel armed both sides. leveymg Mar 2012 #1

In this forum, we discuss the pros and cons of different energy sources. bananas Mar 2012 #4

You can frame it however you like. But, draw your own conclusions, and we'll draw ours. leveymg Mar 2012 #6

My conclusions have been pretty accurate. bananas Mar 2012 #13

You're right about some of that, but use has no correlation at all with proliferation. Thank g-d - leveymg Mar 2012 #14

Deterrence failure rate ... bananas Mar 2012 #18

Your conclusions have been very accurate. kristopher Mar 2012 #25

Is this a prelude to... FBaggins Mar 2012 #2

It does read like that, doesn’t it? OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #5

I doubt there's any choice. FBaggins Mar 2012 #10

We don’t need to sell Israel nuclear warheads OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #15

Miniturizing a nuclear warhead is much more complicated than just having nukes. FBaggins Mar 2012 #17

Nuclear weapons and Israel OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #19

Again... that isn't the same thing FBaggins Mar 2012 #20

And in 40 years… OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #21

You seem to be missing the point. FBaggins Mar 2012 #22

No, I'm not missing the point at all OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #23

So they felt the need to purchase our conventional bunker munitions... FBaggins Mar 2012 #24

We buy blue jeans from China OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #26

Hmmm… according to the BBC… OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #3

Is the OP going to stick to his assertion that Sep. 30 was before June 7, 1980? (oops) leveymg Mar 2012 #7

September 30, 1980 is before June 7, 1981. nt bananas Mar 2012 #9

Are you going to stick to your assertion that 1981 is before 1980? nt bananas Mar 2012 #11

No. Point to you. leveymg Mar 2012 #12

BBC got it wrong. nt bananas Mar 2012 #8

For what it's worth OKIsItJustMe Mar 2012 #16