Quote (ZingerSupreme @ Mar 14 2012 05:44am)

And this will delay the nuclear program by as long as it takes to reopen them.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 14 2012 04:38am)

...we have already identified every single entrance into or exit from the facilities . Collapse those and that enrichment facility becomes a mountain tomb .

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 14 2012 12:48pm)

...with no one alive inside to maintain the containment system the place will be unapproachable for the next 25,000 years or so .

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 14 2012 05:50am)

They would never possibly anticipate such an obvious move by stockpiling enough supplies and auxiliary air vents to keep the facilities self sufficient for prolonged periods, oh no.
Especially not when that would be standard fare even without the threat of attack, for the possibility of natural collapse.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 14 2012 04:54am)

...apparently you are unaware of the power of our large thermobaric warheads . Everyone inside will be dead within minutes !

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 14 2012 05:30am)

Good against bunkers, not against mountains. Those facilities are half nuke proof, conventional explosives and earthquake bombs wouldn't even give them a headache.




Anyway, so I can pour a cold splash of reality onto the warmongering and bloodlust in this thread, let me ask you this-
what happens if we go into Iran, start carpet bombing military installations and infrastructure, destroying the entire country
and then 3 days later, a nuclear explosive detonates over the skies of Tel Aviv, disintegrating everyone on the ground, killing 2 million israelis.
Because suddenly you find out that Iran had been misleading the world, and had already gotten the bomb- and was just stockpiling before it would reveal it.
And what then?
Because heres the fact of the matter- as soon as we actually attack Iran, they will immediately announce to the world that they have the bomb.
Be it ahmedickface on the air, or the ayatollah himself, someone will speak out and proclaim that they really did have a nuclear weapon program, and it is now online, and if you don't back off, Israel is toast.
And thats exactly what will happen. Whether or not they actually have the bomb. For obvious reasons really. And then, does it matter whether they have the bomb?


How will we respond to that. Iran declares it has the bomb right as we start attacks, and demands we cease, or they obliterate us.
Will we cease, or try to call the bluff and keep bombing? If we do, might chinese or russian or DPRK bomb find its way into Israel? Teach a lesson about MAD.
So pray tell, when Iran makes that announcement on the eve of battle, what will be our reaction?

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 14 2012 05:59am)

This isn't star wars, there aren't any exhaust ports on these mountains for you to shoot at. You drop a MOAB on a mountain, and the mountain remains.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Mar 14 2012 05:04am)

...of course there are intake and exhaust ports for the facility . Don't be silly .

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 14 2012 06:19am)

I don't think you understand. There aren't any 50' x 50' cartoonish giant pipes leading straight down to their reactor core with a big glowing target on them.
You try dropping a thermo bomb onto an air intake, and guess what happens? You blow a nice hole in the ground, and don't do a thing to the people underground except give them one less tube, of which they would have many.