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By Reuven Koret
November 10, 2007,
web.israelinsider.com -
With no alternative but to fight fire with fire, the Israel Air Force is training for a tactical nuclear strike on Iranian nuclear production facilities. As hope fades for a diplomatic solution to Iran's development of enriched uranium for production of weapons with the primary purpose of destroying Israel, the IAF is practicing for a mission to destroy key Iranian facilities, at least one with low-yield nuclear munitions, the Times of London reported.
Citing "several Israeli sources," the Times said that two IAF squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using a combination of precision laser bombs and low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters". The Times report was supplemented by one from Fox News.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb, the Times said.
MINI-NUKES
Under the plans, the report said, conventional laser-guided bombs would open shafts into the targets. Then the "mini-nukes" would then be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.
"As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished," said one of the sources.
Israeli intelligence recently announced that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons by 2009. Meir Dagan, head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, told the Knesset, Israel's parliament, also believes that the Iranians will have a complete nuclear device by 2009.
Conventional strikes, IDF commanders believe, are insufficient to destroy the deeply buried enrichment facilities, which are reportedly built beneath at least 70 feet of concrete and rock and surrounded by dozens of Iranian anti-aircraft batteries.
Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran believed to be central to Iran's nuclear program, the Times reported:
Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment;
A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored; because this is located near a city of 4.5 million people, Israeli may opt to use conventional munitions here.
[..] the United States is believed to be backing away from military action in Iran, and the new US defense secretary, Robert Gates, has described a strike against Iranian targets as a "last resort", leading Israelis to believe that it will be left to the IAF to strike. Israeli sources do not believe that the US is likely to give explicit permission for Israel to use tactical nukes.
The Times, citing Israeli sources, said Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets.
The report said that the air force squadrons are based at Hatzerim in the Negev desert and Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, under the personal supervision of Major General Eliezer Shkedy, commander of the Israeli Air Force, training to use Israel's arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons on the mission.
The strike is expected to release nuclear material from the plants, rendering the facilities uninhabitable and crippling their reconstruction.
The Israelis believe that Iran's expected retaliation would be constrained by fear of an Israeli second strike.
The leak of a possible nuclear option by Israel may be intentional, US analysts have said. "In the cold war, we made it clear to the Russians that it was a virtual certainty that nukes would fly and fly early," said an American defense source. "Israel may be adopting the same tactics: 'You produce a weapon; you die'."
web.israelinsider.com/Article...2333.htm
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Mini-Nukes - Different sizes and yields, and some history::
1. According to a 2003 Senate decision, the new generation of tactical nuclear weapons or "low yield" "mini-nukes", with an explosive capacity of up to 6 times a Hiroshima bomb, are now considered "safe for civilians" because the explosion is underground.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php
***
2. The low-yield weapons would have one-third or less of the force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, which killed more than 100,000 people.
By my estimates, these new and more benign nukes have the capability of killing "only" 33,333 individuals. Thank goodness, cause that is just below the threshold for calling it a "weapon of mass destruction."
www.antiwar.com/ewens/
3. Compared to a nuclear bomb, the MOAB produces a tiny explosion. The smallest known nuclear bomb -- the Davy Crockett fission bomb -- has a 10-ton yield. The difference is that a nuclear bomb that small weighs less than 100 pounds (45 kg) and produces significant amounts of lethal radiation when it detonates. For comparison, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 14,500 tons of TNT and weighed only 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) -- half the weight of the MOAB.
science.howstuffworks.com/moab1.htm
4. M28 120mm Atomic Battle Group Delivery System (Light)
M151A1D 4x4 Tactical Transporter / Launcher 'Davy Crockett'
www.guntruck.com/DavyCrockett.html
"The M388 Projectile weighed 76 pounds (the W-54 warhead coming in at 51 pounds of this total). The projectile was 31 inches long and 11 inches at its widest point. Some 2100 were produced and the weapon was deployed from 1961 to 1971 - even though President John F. Kennedy reportedly ordered its removal in 1963.
Davy Crockett was the smallest and lightest implosion-type fission bomb ever deployed by the United States. The M388 Projectile was time-fused. It did not carry sophisticated altitude sensors for detonation. The troops had to compute time-of-flight from the launcher to the target zone. During practice firings in Europe, inherent inaccuracies in the recoilless launchers themselves help bring about the end of deployment of the Davy Crockett. Not insignificant to mention, the Davy Crockett also did not have a recall feature. Once fired, it was committed downrange to detonation, and could not be self-destructed.
Operation: SUNBEAM explored weapons effects tests for low-yield tactical nuclear explosions - in which the Davy Crockett Weapon System was tested. This was a part of the larger IVY FLATS Exercise. IVY FLATS was a exercise simulating a battle between a large enemy armored force advancing upon a smaller US force consisting of artillery pieces, not capable of halting the enemy advance. US Army Atomic Battle Group forces were to arrive on scene, and would setup both the M28 and M29 Davy Crockett weapons systems, against the simulated enemy. The actual detonation of the W-54 warhead and firing of a M388 Projectile equipped with the W-54 warhead round would be included in this exercise - along with some 1000 soldiers.
This test shot did, indeed, decimate the opposing enemy force, in simulation.
The first detonation of a Davy Crockett warhead was in the LITTLE FELLER II weapons effects test, taking place before the battlefield exercise with live soldiers (LITTLE FELLER I). LITTLE FELLER II took place on 7 July, 1962. This was a surface burst of the W-54 Davy Crockett warhead, which was suspended three feet above the ground on cables. The plutonium warhead's diameter was just short of 11 inches, was over 15 inches long, and weighed 50 pounds. The explosive yield in this test was equal to 22 tons of TNT. Below is a photograph of the code named "SMALL BOY" test shot (LITTLE FELLER I) - the second Davy Crockett detonation. Historical records don't state why LITTLE FELLER II occurred before LITTLE FELLER I."
www.guntruck.com/DavyCrockett.html
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Comment:
Dr. Bill Deagle has postulated that "mini-nukes" may have been used (in addition to Thermate) at both in OKC and at the WTC, and says he has found evidence to support his thesis, but to my knowledge, this has not yet been proven, as he says has found no lab in North America that is willing to look at the samples. Apparently he is now looking elsewhere.
His detractors have mainly claimed that there is no such thing as "mini-nukes". Well, i think we have put that to rest.
I have, however, heard of and from WTC first responders (on radio shows) at the scene who have many classic symptoms of radiation exposure.
Deagle has not given up, but we may never know for sure. We should not, however, be so quick to dismiss this, neither in regards to past events, nor future ones.
November 10, 2007,
web.israelinsider.com -
With no alternative but to fight fire with fire, the Israel Air Force is training for a tactical nuclear strike on Iranian nuclear production facilities. As hope fades for a diplomatic solution to Iran's development of enriched uranium for production of weapons with the primary purpose of destroying Israel, the IAF is practicing for a mission to destroy key Iranian facilities, at least one with low-yield nuclear munitions, the Times of London reported.
Citing "several Israeli sources," the Times said that two IAF squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using a combination of precision laser bombs and low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters". The Times report was supplemented by one from Fox News.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb, the Times said.
MINI-NUKES
Under the plans, the report said, conventional laser-guided bombs would open shafts into the targets. Then the "mini-nukes" would then be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.
"As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished," said one of the sources.
Israeli intelligence recently announced that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons by 2009. Meir Dagan, head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, told the Knesset, Israel's parliament, also believes that the Iranians will have a complete nuclear device by 2009.
Conventional strikes, IDF commanders believe, are insufficient to destroy the deeply buried enrichment facilities, which are reportedly built beneath at least 70 feet of concrete and rock and surrounded by dozens of Iranian anti-aircraft batteries.
Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran believed to be central to Iran's nuclear program, the Times reported:
Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment;
A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored; because this is located near a city of 4.5 million people, Israeli may opt to use conventional munitions here.
[..] the United States is believed to be backing away from military action in Iran, and the new US defense secretary, Robert Gates, has described a strike against Iranian targets as a "last resort", leading Israelis to believe that it will be left to the IAF to strike. Israeli sources do not believe that the US is likely to give explicit permission for Israel to use tactical nukes.
The Times, citing Israeli sources, said Israeli pilots have flown to Gibraltar in recent weeks to train for the 2,000-mile round trip to the Iranian targets.
The report said that the air force squadrons are based at Hatzerim in the Negev desert and Tel Nof, south of Tel Aviv, under the personal supervision of Major General Eliezer Shkedy, commander of the Israeli Air Force, training to use Israel's arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons on the mission.
The strike is expected to release nuclear material from the plants, rendering the facilities uninhabitable and crippling their reconstruction.
The Israelis believe that Iran's expected retaliation would be constrained by fear of an Israeli second strike.
The leak of a possible nuclear option by Israel may be intentional, US analysts have said. "In the cold war, we made it clear to the Russians that it was a virtual certainty that nukes would fly and fly early," said an American defense source. "Israel may be adopting the same tactics: 'You produce a weapon; you die'."
web.israelinsider.com/Article...2333.htm
******
Mini-Nukes - Different sizes and yields, and some history::
1. According to a 2003 Senate decision, the new generation of tactical nuclear weapons or "low yield" "mini-nukes", with an explosive capacity of up to 6 times a Hiroshima bomb, are now considered "safe for civilians" because the explosion is underground.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php
***
2. The low-yield weapons would have one-third or less of the force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, which killed more than 100,000 people.
By my estimates, these new and more benign nukes have the capability of killing "only" 33,333 individuals. Thank goodness, cause that is just below the threshold for calling it a "weapon of mass destruction."
www.antiwar.com/ewens/
3. Compared to a nuclear bomb, the MOAB produces a tiny explosion. The smallest known nuclear bomb -- the Davy Crockett fission bomb -- has a 10-ton yield. The difference is that a nuclear bomb that small weighs less than 100 pounds (45 kg) and produces significant amounts of lethal radiation when it detonates. For comparison, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 14,500 tons of TNT and weighed only 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) -- half the weight of the MOAB.
science.howstuffworks.com/moab1.htm
4. M28 120mm Atomic Battle Group Delivery System (Light)
M151A1D 4x4 Tactical Transporter / Launcher 'Davy Crockett'
www.guntruck.com/DavyCrockett.html
"The M388 Projectile weighed 76 pounds (the W-54 warhead coming in at 51 pounds of this total). The projectile was 31 inches long and 11 inches at its widest point. Some 2100 were produced and the weapon was deployed from 1961 to 1971 - even though President John F. Kennedy reportedly ordered its removal in 1963.
Davy Crockett was the smallest and lightest implosion-type fission bomb ever deployed by the United States. The M388 Projectile was time-fused. It did not carry sophisticated altitude sensors for detonation. The troops had to compute time-of-flight from the launcher to the target zone. During practice firings in Europe, inherent inaccuracies in the recoilless launchers themselves help bring about the end of deployment of the Davy Crockett. Not insignificant to mention, the Davy Crockett also did not have a recall feature. Once fired, it was committed downrange to detonation, and could not be self-destructed.
Operation: SUNBEAM explored weapons effects tests for low-yield tactical nuclear explosions - in which the Davy Crockett Weapon System was tested. This was a part of the larger IVY FLATS Exercise. IVY FLATS was a exercise simulating a battle between a large enemy armored force advancing upon a smaller US force consisting of artillery pieces, not capable of halting the enemy advance. US Army Atomic Battle Group forces were to arrive on scene, and would setup both the M28 and M29 Davy Crockett weapons systems, against the simulated enemy. The actual detonation of the W-54 warhead and firing of a M388 Projectile equipped with the W-54 warhead round would be included in this exercise - along with some 1000 soldiers.
This test shot did, indeed, decimate the opposing enemy force, in simulation.
The first detonation of a Davy Crockett warhead was in the LITTLE FELLER II weapons effects test, taking place before the battlefield exercise with live soldiers (LITTLE FELLER I). LITTLE FELLER II took place on 7 July, 1962. This was a surface burst of the W-54 Davy Crockett warhead, which was suspended three feet above the ground on cables. The plutonium warhead's diameter was just short of 11 inches, was over 15 inches long, and weighed 50 pounds. The explosive yield in this test was equal to 22 tons of TNT. Below is a photograph of the code named "SMALL BOY" test shot (LITTLE FELLER I) - the second Davy Crockett detonation. Historical records don't state why LITTLE FELLER II occurred before LITTLE FELLER I."
www.guntruck.com/DavyCrockett.html
******
Comment:
Dr. Bill Deagle has postulated that "mini-nukes" may have been used (in addition to Thermate) at both in OKC and at the WTC, and says he has found evidence to support his thesis, but to my knowledge, this has not yet been proven, as he says has found no lab in North America that is willing to look at the samples. Apparently he is now looking elsewhere.
His detractors have mainly claimed that there is no such thing as "mini-nukes". Well, i think we have put that to rest.
I have, however, heard of and from WTC first responders (on radio shows) at the scene who have many classic symptoms of radiation exposure.
Deagle has not given up, but we may never know for sure. We should not, however, be so quick to dismiss this, neither in regards to past events, nor future ones.
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