Reply #21: Hersh, and your assessment are off

[Pavulon]

unless he has access to the operational plans the military would use if there was a release of nuclear weapons to them? Unless he has a source with a name it is a joke.

People are pretty ignorant of the way nuclear war works.

The US has a stated policy of no first use of nuclear weapons. The b61 mod11 is a thermonuclear weapon. Using it would make a hell of a mess. It is not precised, and would be a very dirty (radiological) weapon.

We have no reason to start a war with Iran. Iran has no reason to start a war with us. IF Iran started a war conventional or other it would not take 10 years to pan out. No insurgents or occupation, just massive strategic bombing. Think tokyo in 44, every dam, power plant, petro facility would be gone. Just an open war killing many hundreds of thousands of people. Any massing of people to attack would flip the war from an insurgent war to a non discriminate use of force. Areas would be declared hostile and attacked with conventional munition. Very bad for all involved.

Iran is aware it HAS NO DEFENSE against this. The US has no reason to start this. All parties are better off with the status quo.

BTW Iran is a net importer of refined fuel, our top 3 suppliers are canada, mexico, and Venezuela.