Israel: Iran Could Attack US With Nuclear Bomb

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From The Telegraph:

Israel has warned that Iran could try to attack the US if it acquired a nuclear weapon.

Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, appealed to world leaders to act now to prevent Iran from continuing its nuclear programme.

"If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America," Mr Barak told a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Indicating the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran, Mr Barak said: "We are not taking any option off the table, and we recommend to the world not to take any option off the table, and we mean what we say."

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My Comment: Even a small nuclear device going off in a port .... a 500 ton to 1000 ton explosion (a dud in nuclear speak) will be a catastrophe for world shipping and international trade. The economic cost to the U.S. and world economies will be far worse than what the present financial crisis is creating for the U.S. and world economies, and will last for years.

Ben Muse explored the effects of such a nuclear attack in a 2006 post. The link is HERE.