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Iran's nuclear facilities will survive attack
2006-02-22
TEHRAN: Iran's uranium enrichment facilities, built in underground bunkers, would survive any military strikes, Iran's nuclear programme director said on Tuesday. "The enrichment facilities, particularly Natanz, are located underground and no offensive could damage them," said Gholamreza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, quoted by the student ISNA news agency. Aghazadeh also boasted about the fortress like nature of its Isfahan plant, which is located in a network of subterranean tunnels, and touted Iran's uranium supplies. "Our reserves are extremely developed. We can extract uranium from mines in Bandar Abbas, Saghand and Yazd," he said.
Possibly they will survive. But if we do it right, the people who run them won't.
Posted by:Fred

#6   ¹Although the nuclear tipped bunker busters could do the trick, the object of the game would be to get it (them) to a depth of 400+ feet down before detonation, or a moon shaped crater will blow out the surface exposing all to radiation poisoning(assuming we cared at this point)! How do we get it to target? At 400 feet, a circumspectral-dome would result burying all the pulverized remnants (neat tidy wrapup)!

²The US could use multiple conventional bunker busters followed by a MOAB in the same track (assuming they have enough in the arsenals for multiple target locations,

³The Israeli option would be to employ the gopher hole smoking technique with iradiated gas to expose "highlight" the entrances and exits to terminally trap the sites with smart bombs and bunker busters.
Posted by: smn   2006-02-22 18:10  

#5  Four words for the Iranians...
BUNKER BUSTING NUCLEAR BOMBS
Posted by: bgrebel   2006-02-22 16:29  

#4  Actually, ODA, I suspect we have more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak, lol!
Posted by: BA   2006-02-22 10:13  

#3  Only one way to find out...
Posted by: Ol Dirty American   2006-02-22 06:53  

#2  ...Well, strictly speaking, Hitler's last Berlin bunker survived until the early 90s. I suspect the Iranian bunkers will survive the same way.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-02-22 06:39  

#1  insects sealed in amber 65 million years ago also "survive" as it were.....
Posted by: Frank G   2006-02-22 00:10  

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