And yet, surprisingly, Iraq has turned out okay.
As a puppet of Iran
Wrong again. Have they been aiding Hezbollah and Hamas? Nope.
Only cost that little ISIS interlude, a mere trifle. BTW, anyone seen the Yazidis around anywhere? yawn
And it only took a few million rather grisly deaths.
I for one am ready to fight this war to the last IRGC.
On whose part? Who might use tactical nukes in this scenario, what would they use them on, and what might trigger their use?
And a police station. Because police pose such a terrible risk to Israel.
I tried finding a source for this. So far the only links I've turned up were to the World Socialist Web Site. I don't trust them, and they don't list their source for that claim. They attribute a bunch of stuff in that story to the Washington Post, but the WP source for at least one of their quotes doesn't say anything about water treatment plants. My search did turn up a number of reports of Iranian cyberattacks on both Israeli and American water treatment plants, though.
From what I can tell, the US arsenal has only two nukes in active inventory that can fit in the category of "bunker buster". The B-83 is a hydrogen bomb with a yield of up to a megaton. That's a strategic nuke, not a tactical nuke, and it's not designed for earth penetration, only ground detonation. So let's disregard the B-83. There is an earth penetrating version of the B-61 (the Mod 11(), but with > 300 kt yield, that's also sort of in the strategic category. Lower yield versions of the B-61 can be surface detonating, but not penetrating. The B-61 might work, but first use of a nuke in war is a really big step, and there are a lot of reasons we wouldn't want to do that.
That's a claim being made by Iran, not by Pakistan. But the first rule of Nuclear Deterrence Club is ALWAYS talk about Nuclear Deterence Club. The entire point of a nuclear deterrent is so you don't have to use it. And in order for it to work, people have to know about it. If Pakistan actually wants to dissuade Israel from nuking Iran by threatening their own nuclear retaliation, then the very first thing they're going to do is announce that they will nuke Israel if Israel nukes Iran. The threat has to be credible, and it's not credible if it's being announced by someone else. So I really don't believe the threat, because it's not being delivered the way I think it would be if it were real.
That‘s one of the better Downfall parodies.
It would be the end of the taboo against using nuclear weapons. We have the MOP precisely so as to have a conventional alternative to the tactical nuke. Fordo is exactly the type of target that the weapon was designed for. It is time to deploy it.
