If Bush nuking Iran doesn't scare you, here's some info that might...

[FormerRepublican]

"If nukes are ever used by any of the warring participants over there, we could soon be in deep trouble over here, too, * even if * in the unlikely event we had managed somehow not to get involved and it all ended as quick as it began.

Few realize that shortly after any nuclear detonation anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, we in the USA could be having their spent nukes radioactive fallout raining down on us here, too. Especially of concern, according to health physicists, will be plenty of thyroid contaminating radioactive iodine. All courtesy of the prevailing westerly trade winds blowing their nuclear fallout onto our shores a few days after any of them trade nuclear blasts with any of their neighbors.

The Nuclear War Survival Skills book (by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1979, a Facility of the U.S. Department of Energy, Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition) details the above and shows where a single, and very small, above ground Chinese nuclear test explosion ("a few hundred kilotons") on December 28, 1966 resulted in the fallout cloud covering most of the United States.

Cresson H. Kearny, the author of the above book, also states about this now declassifed incident:"

http://www.ki4u.com/transpacific.htm

So if Bush nukes Iran, we get fallout. If Iran nukes Israel, we get fallout. If Israel nukes Iran, we get fallout.

When will people learn that nukes are NOT a toy, and playing with them will get people hurt?

Take the red button away from Bush - now!

I don't know how accurate this info on trans-pacific fallout is. Are there any experts out there who might want to take a shot at explaining what global effects we might be looking at?

[dipsydoodle]

1. It's what's more commonly known

as pissing into the wind.

[seabeyond]

2. my thought if we nuke, kinda opens the door for all to nuke

like preemptive strike. as much as we dont like n korea, per what they said .... preemptive isnt exclusively for the united states. is open to anyone. if we justify preemptive, then why the hell cant n korea say the same, besides the argument they are bad.

or venezula
cuba
iran
syria

and many more

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Also - satellite communications

radio, tv, cable, web, gpss

The nuclear detonation will give rise an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and also trhough charged particles into the upper atmosphere. Really change the "constant coefficients" in Maxwell's Equations (antennas) and pump lots of nano-antennas into the upper atmosphere.