Mediaite.com reports that even Tom Brokaw said it was inappropriate for Biden to laugh during the discussion of Iran, whose president has vowed to exterminate Israel. Reader Taylor Dinerman, a journalist who specializes in aerospace (and who also knows National Review's Rich Lowry), argues that Biden's pooh-poohing of Iran's developing nuclear capability was dangerously fatuous:Maybe not to you and me, but I've no doubt that Joe's still in stiches.
The worst part of the debate and the part that I wish Ryan had been able to counter was when Biden started in on the "They don't have a bomb to put (the fissile material) into."This is outrageous. The hard part of building a nuclear weapon is to get the fissile material, bomb designs are a dime a dozen and anyone who has access to a copy of the Progressive Magazine from the 1970s when they published a bomb design they had dug up from some documents that were found in the Los Alamos public library can build one.The A.Q. Khan design has long been available to them including any refinements the North Koreans have made.Making a warhead that can fit on a missile may be harder, but building a basic nuclear weapon that could be put on an airliner or a ship is easy once you have the material.Doesn't seem so funny now, does it?
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An interesting--definitely not mainstream--free-lance Roman Catholic theologian, Biblical scholar, and polymath, Ronald Conte, Jr., publishes a blog, _Improperium Christi_, in which he often posits that the Iranians do not plan to attack Israel directly with their nuclear weapons, once they get them. Mr. Conte echoes Mr. Dinerman, often pointing out that Ahmadinejad and company do not need a sophisticated delivery system to use their bomb(s). In fact, Mr. Conte believes the Iranians do not intend to bomb Israeli targets directly, as this would almost certainly result in a retaliatory strike that would devastate Iran; rather, he thinks the Iranian plan is to use a ship or an airliner, as suggested by Mr. Dinerman, to set off a Hiroshima-sized or even smaller fission bomb in or over Manahattan (which, from the Islamowhacko perspective, is full of Jews and might just as well be an Israeli city), publicly tell the U. S. government and people that they have a few more such hidden away, ready to detonate, in other major American cities . . . but that they won't be used unless the U. S. retaliates against Iran or comes to Israel's aid militarily. The Iranians would then concentrate on reducing the State of Israel by conventional means, at the head of a grand coalition of Islamic states. The scenario makes twisted sense to me.
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