8500th nuk-ler thing? When in the world was this written?,early 80's? Excepting china(and i doubt,wouldn't be surprised),i don't think ANY country in world has that many nukes anymore.Can you provide a REF. to this olease,i'd sure like to read it. I guess i should add,IF, the US has a whole shitbucket of nukes,don't think they're making anymore.
Suppose i will say,is that isreal has had nukes ,have for a while now and if they start nuking each other and the dreaded MAD situation(remember that acrynom folks?Reagan era quote,Mutually Assured Destruction) doen't occur AND the US hasn't gotten involved yet,which i doubt,AND iran has any nukes left,AND they so much as sneeze this way,i'm afraid its scorched earth time for iran,nothing left but a bunch of oil wells flaming away(along with everybody within a great distance,AND then i think every arab in the world is now REALLY pissed at the west along with who ever else.WWIII.
Remember the quote,can't think of his name,the first WW will be fought with sticks and stones,the second WW will be fought with guns and the third WW will be fought with nuclear weapons and the fourth WW will be fought with sticks and stones again. This is some form of a quote i remember from a loooong time ago,so may not be technically correct but you get the meaning.
From there and thinking about that,my head is firmly planted in sand as this one makes no sense at all to worry about,it won't matter to git PIAW over it.
I was discouraged today while we were enjoying a really enjoyable vietnamese lunch on the way home,they had CNN on and i saw a little news line scrolling across the bottom that something like"US has declared an iranian general a drug trafficker". As tony the tiger would say,thhhts GRRReat!. Yippee,whattaya know,the first excuse for the US to take some kind of military action.
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Originally posted by: cowboydan
Iran's postion on this here nuklear thing:
"TEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America's uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon.
"Our intelligence estimates indicate that, if it is allowed to progress with its aggressive nuclear program, the United States may soon possess its 8,500th atomic weapon capable of reaching Iran," said Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, adding that Americans have the fuel, the facilities, and "everything they need" to manufacture even more weapons-grade fissile material.
"Obviously, the prospect of this happening is very distressing to Iran and all countries like Iran. After all, the United States is a volatile nation that's proven it needs little provocation to attack anyone anywhere in the world whom it perceives to be a threat." Iranian intelligence experts also warned of the very real, and very frightening, possibility of the U.S. providing weapons and resources to a rogue third-party state such as Israel."
