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Report: Iran Building Powerful Nuclear Device | ||
2012-11-28 | ||
Iran is planning to build a nuclear bomb with at least triple the force of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in World War II, diagrams obtained by the Associated Press indicates. According to AP, the diagrams were first discovered by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scientists after an inspection of an Iranian nuclear facility. The document was published by the AP Tuesday after, the news agency said, it was leaked by officials critical of the way the West has been handling the Iran issue.
The diagrams showed a scientific calculation of the expected yield of a nuclear device, with a maximum force of 50 kilotons, experts who saw the AP diagrams said. There was no possibility that the diagrams referred to a process other than construction of a nuclear weapon, the experts said. If Iran is indeed designing a nuclear weapon with a 50 kiloton yield, it will be significantly stronger than the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II, which were only 15 kilotons powerful. Nuclear weapons held by the U.S., Russia, and other countries are significantly stronger than a bomb with a 50 kiloton yield. Iran, meanwhile, said Tuesday that it had filed complaints with the United Nations over what it said were violations of its airspace by U.S. planes. Iran said that U.S. planes and drones had violated Iranian airspace eight times in October.
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Posted by:Beavis |
#2 Even iff Iran did mostly adhere to its desired "Japan/Egypt" nuke model, the scenario does exist that it may covertly dev a handful of de facto working NucBombs to store/maintain at the ready in case of any contingency vee the US-Israel. * TOPIX > IRAN WILL ENRICH URANIUM "WID FORCE" [Intensity]: ATOMIC CHIEF. [VLAD "SUBMIT TO MY MIGHTY JEDI WILL" PUTIN VS. SIBERIAN "NO WE WON'T" CRANES here]. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-11-28 21:14 |
#1 Only eight that they know about. I guess the drones are indeed stealthy enough... Or just the one they shot at and figured there were at least seven more. Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2012-11-28 19:17 |