[On Topic!] Possibly Timely Reading - Iran & Osirak

[Stop SPAM]

Given current event directions in Iran and today's announcement of the
test of the Iranian Shahab-3 missile with a range of at least 810 miles
(Israel and US Middle Eastern bases) and possibly longer (European
targets), ("Iran Test Fires New Ballistic Missile",
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=10&u=/ap/20040811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_missile)
, I would suggest a review of the Osirak strike might be timely.

In particular:
- "Two Minutes Over Baghdad", Perlmutter et al, was updated with a
Second Edition in 2003.
- "Raid on the Sun : Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam
the Bomb", Rodger Claire, 2004.

Can anyone recommend any others?


I assume a similiar strike today would be more difficult given longer
distances, better air defenses and perhaps more widely dispersed nuclear
development sites instead of a single reactor.

[zalzon]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:19:06 -0500, Stop SPAM wrote:
> I assume a similiar strike today would be more difficult given longer
> distances, better air defenses and perhaps more widely dispersed nuclear
> development sites instead of a single reactor.

Just refuel over eyerack and fly in.

The range is not an issue. Worse comes to worse, just fly a one way
bombing mission and ditch in the sea. Get picked up by a waiting boat. A
few planes can be sacrificed no problem. The only impediment is that the
element of surprise (unlike osirak) is not there as eyeran is
expecting/prepared for an attack.

The above is not the main issue though.

The biggest issue is that eyeran is working hard towards indigenization
of the knowledge it takes to build an atomnaja bomba from scratch - from
mining the ore to production. Anything destroyed can be replaced in time
by the country's own effort. Thus besides making the population very
angry, the only thing bombing would accomplish is slow things down, not
prevent it.

At least that is what I think is the situation. Am I wrong?

[Matt Wiser]

Stop SPAM > wrote:
>Given current event directions in Iran and today's
>announcement of the
>test of the Iranian Shahab-3 missile with a
>range of at least 810 miles
>(Israel and US Middle Eastern bases) and possibly
>longer (European
>targets), ("Iran Test Fires New Ballistic Missile",
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=10&u=/ap/20040811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_missile)
>
> , I would suggest a review of the Osirak strike
>might be timely.
>
>In particular:
>- "Two Minutes Over Baghdad", Perlmutter et
>al, was updated with a
>Second Edition in 2003.
>- "Raid on the Sun : Inside Israel's Secret
>Campaign that Denied Saddam
>the Bomb", Rodger Claire, 2004.
>
>Can anyone recommend any others?
>
>
>I assume a similiar strike today would be more
>difficult given longer
>distances, better air defenses and perhaps more
>widely dispersed nuclear
>development sites instead of a single reactor.
>
Dan Kurtzman wrote Bullseye Iraq or Bullseye, One Reactor (two titles for
the same book). He's a good writer, having written about the U.S.S. Indianapolis
sinking and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, among other topics.

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