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Originally Posted by Rochard
A nuclear bomb in the US or Europe would not be globally catastrophic. .... We aren't afraid that Iran is going to launch a 25 or 50 megaton bomb at us, ..... be less than ideal.
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You are assuming there would be no nuclear retaliation. Japan had no return nuclear attack potential in 1945.
The militaries of the USA and the European nuclear powers do have that retaliation potential and if attacked first they would probably use it. Then India, China, Pakistan, Israel might take sides. With Putin's finger on the Russian nuclear trigger the nukes could fly in multiple directions. North Korea would nuke someone just to look important. The end game to your thinking is -0- as maybe there are 500 million dead and casualties should an event escalate.
http://nucleargamble.org/wordpress/w...udy-Natanz.pdf
The prevailing winds are from the north-northeast 13 - 15 mi/hr (20-24 km/hr) at the site of Iran?s underground Uranium Enrichment Facility close to Tehran to the south-west. An attack of the Natanz facility would carry nuclear fallout in the direction of Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
I would be more concerned of a dirty bomb going off in Tel Aviv. Israel has some ICBMs and a few hundred strategic short range and tactical nuclear weapons -- under catastrophic attack they would use them.
This could very easily escalate beyond the Middle East. The Ayatollah wants his messianic dream and the Armageddon prophecy of both Christians and Jews says there will be catastrophic event before the messiah's return or initial coming, respectively.
Don't let religious nut cases create the possibility of nuclear massive death.
Happy Easter Obama and Kerry ...