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Isreal and American forces ready to attack Iran within days
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IrelandSpirit wrote: »
And if you just refer to the boring actual figures relating to the Iran-Iraq war, the US weighed in far behind the Russians and the French in terms of weapons support. Notwithstanding blinkered CT assumptions.0 -
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And if you just refer to the boring actual figures relating to the Iran-Iraq war, the US weighed in far behind the Russians and the French in terms of weapons support. Notwithstanding blinkered CT assumptions.
SupplierTotal Sales in US Dollars (billions)Percent of total salesSource: Richard F. Grimmett, CRS Report for Congress; Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2001-2008
. September 4, 2009
Notes: Percentages are rounded; Each country shown as follows:
developing countries
industrialized countries
United States154.88241%Russia63.82317%France31.2478%
Surprise surprise, US 41%, Russia 17%, France 8%, that's the order they still weigh in at. Why should it be any different before/during the Iran-Iraq war? Were US business interests any different back then, or perhaps they were 'bored' of referring to actual figures ...
BTW, what 'actual figures' are you talking about?
Edit: graph didn't post as presented in preview mode. Please refer to link http://www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big-business0 -
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A piece from Vetrans Today by Bob Nichols on the realistic nature of building a nuclear bomb.
San Francisco) Many people are asking if Iran can build a nuclear weapon. The answer is No, they cannot. Iran does not have the tools or material to do so. Some 40 countries would probably like to build a reactor, though, according to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency. A reactor is the first step to a nuclear weapon.
An image always associated with a nuke weapon.
But, the President of the US, politicians in Israel and other important people say Iran “might” be able to build a weapon in a few years. So what? I might like to jump over the moon too; but, it ain’t gonna happen.
Same thing with Iran building a nuclear weapon. Iran does not have the tools to do so. Iran cannot get them or even make the tools required. Iran cannot even buy the tools. Try calling up Japan Steel and ordering a few tons of Marange Speciality Steel and see what happens.
Talk is cheap; building nuclear weapons is not. Building nuke weapons is a very expensive, dirty, nasty business. Lots of people talk glibly about building nuclear weapons and have not a clue what they are talking about; only a few people can actually do it. Freelancers, independents and “terrorists” don’t have a chance of doing so. No, building nuclear weapons is an exclusively state run business.
Here, in a brief Flash video by nuclear reactor expert ‘Ace’ Hoffman, is how nuclear weapons changed the face of America.
In fact, building nuclear weapons is the kind of big industrial enterprise that can be detected from satellites in outer space. The US has plenty of spy satellites; at least one is “parked” over Iran right now. And, making “small” nuclear weapons is even harder than building 10,000 lb, (4,545 kilogram) Atomic Bombs!
That being said, two world wide “nuclear capable corporations” as Ann Garrison, my colleague and a noted writer at the San Francisco Bay View calls them, are Bechtel and Halliburton. There actually is a Mr Bechtel, he lives in San Francisco, just down a bit from his old friend “Nuclear Nancy” Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Hmm, San Francisco is quite a small town, actually.
Anyway, Bechtel Corp runs the privatized US nuclear weapons program and Halliburton runs the equally privatized British nuclear weapons program at the quaintly named AWE, or Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, England. There is certainly a lot of money to be made from nuclear weapons and the hand maiden to nuke weapons – nuke power plants.
True, the only thing nuke power plants actually produce is 1400 plus very radioactive isotopes and they all leak, all the time. One of those is Plutonium 239 or Pu 239 for short. It is entirely made by humans and did not really exist before its tryout detonation at Alamogordo, New Mexico and its Prime Time Debut detonation at Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. Pu 239 makes a thermonuclear bomb, the big ones with no theoretical upper limit on size. It is the man made metal bomb makers crave.
A live map (I hope) of who is really the dangerous users of what we are told is the technology we should not allow Iran to have.
http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/0 -
The point? - you're a hypocrite.
Im a hypocrite for asking you to back up your figures is that what your saying to me? What a ridiculous thing to say keep in mind all I did I was ask you to back up what you had posted. Also, that link you supplied brings you to a page that says "error". Can you post the relevant page links where the figures are outlined along with the source-links for those figures. From what I can see the site you quoted is an "independent think tank" I would be interested in seeing where they are getting their information from.0 -
You do understand that just because I'm sharing my sweets with all of these cool kids, and I've many more bags than Jimmy over there, Jimmy may well be a bigger source of sweets to the nerdy kids? :rolleyes:
Yeah, and only way you'd let Jimmy get away with that, is if your sweets were laced with lsd and you wanted Jimmy to take the fall if you got caught
I can't see the US letting the French (FFS) get the jump on them in arms sales.0 -
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Im a hypocrite for asking you to back up your figures is that what your saying to me? What a ridiculous thing to say keep in mind all I did I was ask you to back up what you had posted. Also, that link you supplied brings you to a page that says "error". Can you post the relevant page links where the figures are outlined along with the source-links for those figures. From what I can see the site you quoted is an "independent think tank" I would be interested in seeing where they are getting their information from.
You're a hypocrite for applying a double standard to wiki links - solely based on who references them - yeah. The arms import figures? - Tell you what - you're going to have to do a bit of work on your own - data is generated based on individual queries, you can't link to the resulting page - why don't you knock yourself out - http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/values.php
And SIPRI is as credible a source as you'll find anywhere. Sorry about that.0 -
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