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Amerika denkt na over nucleare aanval
SPIKE - 11.04.2006 13:17
Amerika denkt na over het gebruik van nucleare wapens.
“One of the military’s initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites.”
“Some operations, apparently aimed in part at intimidating Iran, are already under way. American Naval tactical aircraft, operating from carriers in the Arabian Sea, have been flying simulated nuclear-weapons delivery missions—rapid ascending maneuvers known as “over the shoulder” bombing—since last summer, the former official said, within range of Iranian coastal radars. “
 http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact
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| Read more about: wereldcrisis | | supplements | | some supplements were deleted from this article, see policy | | | geen oorlog tegen iran | ghazal - 11.04.2006 13:36
Het gebruik van kernwapens wordt nu vooral besproken in verband met Iran.
Teken de petitie 'Geen oorlog tegen iran' op:
www.geenoorlogtegeniran.nl
| | aanvulling | Guido - 11.04.2006 16:39
De ene zegt dat het enkel psychologische oorlogsvoering is, de andere niet.
BV:
"Graham Fuller, a former CIA officer and Middle East specialist at the RAND Corporation, echoed this view. He told The Forward that the recent spate of articles "shows the fine hand of U.S. [maybe UK too] disinformation and psychological warfare against Iran … [that] may now be intensified, perhaps out of frustration that the 'real thing' is not, in fact, on the table any more."
Other analysts, however, do not see the administration as bluffing.
"For months, I have told interviewers that no senior political or military official was seriously considering a military attack on Iran," wrote Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear proliferation specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) last week."
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=8839
Nog uit het artikel van SEYMOUR M. HERSH:
"One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that “a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.” He added, “I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, ‘What are they smoking?’ ”"
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