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2015-04-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

U.S. preparing bunker busters in case talks with Iran fail

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-04 05:31|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 and a decision is made to attack ~~Iran's~~ heavily fortified nuclear facilities

Could this also serve as a self-damping, runaway reactor, earth-burrowing meltdown extinguisher?

When does the Fukushima meltdown cloud cover the northern hemisphere?

Oh.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-04-04 10:10|| 2015-04-04 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Good luck finding a CiC willing to employ it.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-04 11:22|| 2015-04-04 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Champ wouldn't have any problem at all employing a 'Bunker Buster.' I doubt Kansas, Texas, Indiana, or Nebraska would appreciate his targeting scheme however.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-04 12:42|| 2015-04-04 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Can't possibly do anything until the improved bunker busters have been demonstrated to work. Until then -- so sorry about your six million dead, Bibi! -- we'll all simply have to wait.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-04 12:59|| 2015-04-04 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 About 20MT ought to be sufficient.

Posted by gorb 2015-04-04 14:05|| 2015-04-04 14:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Should have been step one of the non-existent plan.

Posted by Airandee 2015-04-04 14:44|| 2015-04-04 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 @#3: Thank you. My "thinking outside the box" skills are, apparently, atrophying.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-04 16:02|| 2015-04-04 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Atrophy is your friend. Embrace it.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-04 16:10|| 2015-04-04 16:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Why does anyone need "bunker busters" to flatten the gov't centers in Tehran?

Posted by irishrageboy 2015-04-04 17:05|| 2015-04-04 17:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Irish, it's not about the government centers, it's about the nuclear facilities, which are probably buried and fortified.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-04-04 18:01|| 2015-04-04 18:01|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sure the mad mullahs have some very deep holes they are planning on hiding in when TSHTF.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-04-04 19:22|| 2015-04-04 19:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, there's always the Well. Though probably stinky at the bottom by now.

Posted by KBK 2015-04-04 19:40|| 2015-04-04 19:40|| Front Page Top

#13 I assume the government is planning on using them against Fox News?

Posted by Hellfish 2015-04-04 19:53|| 2015-04-04 19:53|| Front Page Top

#14 They missed April 1st

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-04-04 19:53|| 2015-04-04 19:53|| Front Page Top

#15 My math sez The Mad Mullahs have about 9 months maximum "slack time" for (1) US discovery + (2) time for any new sanctions to begin biting before bomb "breakthrough" (and be unable to blame it on the next Administration.):

Obama leaves office (next President will, assumably, be tougher on Iran.)in apx 21 months

Minimum time to "breakthrough" is estimated at 12 months

Eff' around with Mr. Obama = 21-12 = 9

Hope our Military takes Iran more seriously than The White House.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-04 21:37|| 2015-04-04 21:37|| Front Page Top

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