The Pentagon has decided that its largest conventional bomb isn’t capable of destroying Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment facilities and has ordered efforts to make it more powerful.
The 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, was designed to penetrate deeply buried targets, like some of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But tests of the bomb led the Pentagon to believe it may not fully destroy the facilities, and so this month they secretly submitted a request to Congress additional for funding to build a bigger, more destructive bomb.
Already more than $330 million has been spent to develop about 20 of the bombs, which are built by Boeing Co. The Pentagon is now seeking about $82 million more to enhance it.
There is no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, and the opinion of the U.S. intelligence community, the Obama administration, and the latest IAEA report is that Iran’s enrichment is so far civilian in nature. Still, Washington leaves these facts out of their rhetoric and the administration continues with threatening postures, leaving room for the Pentagon to request profligate weapons and fill the pockets of rent-seeking defense corporations.
The Iranians should set up layers of reactive explosives in the earth covering their facilities to detonate these bombs before they penetrate very far. The principle is already used on armored vehicles in the form of reactive armor (blocks of explosives attached to the outsides of the vehicles) to detonate High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) rounds before they can pierce the target's metal armor.
Better yet… let the Iranians get their hands on the latest Russian anti aircraft missile battery's and watch the planes fall along with their payloads. Would serve them right.
It seems you are waiting for suicide attacks all over all US towns – am I right? Do you know how easy it is for a few of your many arab men in your country to park lorries on US railways? or disrupt pipelines or electricity or or or ? Can you imagine the economic effects of such things? and the costs and effect of trying to get a 50 percent protection for some key spots?
I wonder how peaceful your immigrants are. Or do they also believe in corporate and arab dictatorship media ?
Maybe Immigration is also a problem. But that is another issue.
Good lord allmighty! I'm talking about the Iranian people defending THEIR airspace from lunatics flying F-15's and F-16's etc. Are you insane? Put the crack pipe down.
oh sorry – I obviously did misunderstood you. "Better yet" I interpreted as better yet bombing Iran, before they get new missiles.
Understood. So much meaning gets lost in translation when it comes to typing things out.
Maybe a few truckloads of rocks and titanium balls would have the same prophylactic effect…!!!
So the Pentagon declares, "no one believes our bullsh*t about Iran and nukes. Okie-dokie, must build BIGGER bomb!" That seems about close enough. Watch how fast the US Congress ponies up a mountain of cash for this crap-o-la.
Every last craven poltroon in Amerika's government needs a lengthy time-out and a cookie.
a green magic hippy cookie
I wonder how many tons of TNT it would take to blow Diamona….. I wonder how many tons of TNT or nuclear equivalent ( in) mega-ton(s) yield it would take to convince the colonial occupiers to leave Palestine…. Must the colonial occupiers really go nuclear to keep their uncompensated, sans consideration…………….. ill gotten gains…????? Just outright theft…..!@!!!!!
american intellect is limited to bombs and guns. How stupid and pathetic has our country become…or has it always been this pathetic
All this unrestrained talk about annihilating Iran is itself a form of terrorism.
And of course Big Media, the chattering classes, the pols and the greater part of the new global establishment is behaving as if, sure, these upstarts have the audacity to pursue the development of nuclear power (and maybe someday follow Israel's example of developing nuclear weapons), well, let's just blow them to all to hell. How audacious. How hypocritical.
So what if Israel has stimulated a regional nuclear arms race with the introduction of nuclear bombs in the Middle East. That doesn't matter. They're our special buddies. Welcome to the era of crony military alliances. How did our nation become so 'attached' to these arrogant Zionist nutballs? Why are we even involved in this fight? It's a regional problem.
Incredibly, America enjoys the benefits of nuclear power and has an arsenal of nuclear bombs second to none. The US can now deliver an atomic warhead anywhere on the planet in one hour. Our technology makes us virtually invincible in battle. Iran is Israel's problem (if they're a problem at all). But the West is at Israel's disposal. That's why the Jewish State is a true superpower now.
As for the nuclear issue, dozens of countries worldwide enjoy the economic benefits of nuclear power. This includes Mexico, Bulgaria and even Romania. What's the big deal? Iran is not a suicidal country. They don't invade and destroy sovereign states like we do. And they are a sovereign State. They deserve to be left alone. Iran's also signed on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. They are legally entitled to develop nuclear power. But the ubiquitous friends of Israel say NO. Who gave Israel this veto power?
International influence and unrivaled political power, combined with extraordinary wealth. This is Israel today. And a victim mentality that is unlike any other. That's bad news for the rest of humanity. Israeli extremism combines high levels of xenophobia, espionage, militarism, nationalist aggression, and religious ethnocentrism. This is a terrifying combination of unsavory qualities. Prepare for more State-sponsored violence.
Boy, those engineers at the Boeing Company must feel real creative and productive designing and building this stuff, selling their souls for a paycheck. How would they like to have one of their bombs dropped on their homes, I wonder? Boycott the Boeing Company and tell anyone working for them to do the world a favor and strap themselves on one of their bombs.
They and every other rat who designs and builds the tools for enslavement. Look no further than DARPA.
Next will be a mega bomb that will "take out" all Asia. D.r Strangelove in the Pentagon has gotten loonier than a goldfish in a brewery tank.
Dr. Strangelove must still be running around in his wheelchair down in the War Room. He has to be over 100 years old by now, so maybe he's getting a little senile and demented.
$82 million for some teflon coating/ Can't add too much more weight to these suckers, the latests greatese won't be able to get them off the ground.
And Israel wanted some of these? To drop them with what:?
I wonder if Russia is prepared to utlilize its scalar beam technology
in defense of Tehran.
If it works at all, it would be no defense weapon, but only a weapon for attack – isn't it?
Gosh, I guess I must have missed the part where the Congress declared war on Iran.
If only terrorists and evil doers build bombs to kill civilians…then what does that make us?
Bigger bombs mean higher casualty count. Whatever happened to 'surgigal strikes to minimize collateral killings'?
Use the money to help some people out who's houses are about to be foreclosed??
The purpose of releasing the info that a bigger bomb is needed is to lay the basis for the use of nuclear weapons in an attack on Iran, should Israel and the USA choose. Obviously a bigger bomb can't be built overnight. So, if Israel and the USA provoke a war in the near term, the nuclear weapon is what is available.
Actually what should come into mind first regarding the Iran nuclear issue, would be international supervision. But there is no ongoing discussion over supervision and/or its validity or conditions. This is virtually never discussed. Why? The obviously do not want to know that hthere is no reason to attack – because they want to attack and have planned this long ago:
The government had information that Russia would not intervene in wars of the US against former soviet satellitestates in a 10 year time window:
Most of the countries at the war list are allready finished or nearl finished: Yugoslavia (Gen.Clark just did censor it, because he did make this dirty hypocritical war), Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, …. Iran may be next after Syria.