Reply #75: We bomb a reactor and that's it?

[txaslftist]

You really think so? I think we'd go in there like Israel went into the Lebanon last time; blow up their critical infrastructure, destroy their air defenses, knock out all of their planes, and then bomb the seventy-five or so known sites where nuclear research is suspected of being done. In the course of that, we also (naturally) impose an embargo and extremely harsh sanctions like we did with Iraq after GWI.

I think we'd kill tens of thousands minimum in the "limited" air strikes; and then the follow up (to prevent their military from attacking us in Iraq) destruction of most of their cross border transit points and lots and lots of moving hardware (and the people around such hardware, naturally). This is to say nothing of the economic impact of the sanctions regime, which in the case of Iraq killed half a million people.

If we bomb their reactor, we don't affect their centrifuges, after all, which are located underground. Bombing the reactor doesn't impact their supposed nuclear weapons development at all.