OzOne wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2007 03:52:14 GMT, "Maxprop"
scribbled thusly:


Heh, heh. The difference is that Japan hadn't developed nukes, and we only
had a few. Tehran could conceivably come up with a few low-yield devices,
but we literally have thousands of the big-yield strategic nukes, many of
which are still on the noses of ICBMs. Sort of like attempting to beat off
a pack of lions with a wet noodle.

Max


So now you have a lunatic in charge, MAD has been resurrected?

Hardly MAD, Oz. Worst Iran could do ATM is pop a nuke or 2 on the lines of the
Nagasaki/Hiroshima bombs. BFD. Dunno about you but I've been on ground zero in
NM and the Monte Bellos where nukes were tested in the 40s & 50s, and there
are a lot of people currently living in those 2 Japanese cities as well.

OTOH Iran could turn into a glass lake. No MAD about it, since Iran hasn't the
capacity to inflict significant damage.

If someone popped a nuke on Canberra, I might be prepared to let it slide,
provided parliament was sitting at the time, but if it was any other city in
Australia, I'd be in the glass lake mindset.

As for the USA starting things with Iran, I suspect you've gotten your
knowledge of history from SBS or the ABC, not by any serious reading of
history. But I could be wrong, you might actually know better and are just
stirring the possum. Either way I don't have the time to bother, and you've
shown little stomach for an argument on facts rather than polemics, so....

Back to the ship. One new transducer fitted, one to go. I got over being
surprised over how a 2 day job takes at least 10 the moment you put a ship in
a dry dock back in the last century. However, I haven't gotten over being
****ed off about it. Garden Island is a great spot though, and I'm enjoying
wandering about looking at all the historic buildings. Photography is still
banned in a lot of places there.

PDW