{"id":2820,"date":"2006-04-08T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T01:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/04\/08\/bush-readies-nukes-for-iran-attack\/"},"modified":"2006-04-08T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T01:45:57","slug":"bush-readies-nukes-for-iran-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/04\/08\/bush-readies-nukes-for-iran-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Readies Nukes for Iran Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8266'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/nuukey.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"523\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear<br \/>\n        weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads,<br \/>\n        claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence<br \/>\n        contacts.<\/p>\n<p>        President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran&#8217;s<br \/>\n      hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him<br \/>\n      as &quot;the new Hitler&quot;, says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story<br \/>\n      of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.<\/p>\n<p>      Hersh claims that one of the plans, presented to the White House by the<br \/>\n      Pentagon, entails the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such<br \/>\n      as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One alleged target is<br \/>\n      Iran&#8217;s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, 200 miles south of Teheran.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=C3HY5I431EHHRQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/04\/09\/wbush09.xml&amp;sSheet=\/portal\/2006\/04\/09\/ixportaltop.html\">Daily<br \/>\n    Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>This makes a lot of sense &#8211; stop the spread of nuclear<br \/>\n    weapons by unwrapping a few and opening a can of atomic whipass on a bunch<br \/>\n      of unrepentent troglodytes like the Iranians. Just be careful with the<br \/>\n      Dial-a-Yield, and keep those oil fields radiation-free.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Meanwhile, for the foreseeable future, even rumors of<br \/>\n    military action in the region will send crude oil prices spiking, and an<br \/>\n    actual attack would present the oil companies, once again, with the unsightly<br \/>\n    problem of record prices and profits to hide or explain away.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts. President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/04\/08\/bush-readies-nukes-for-iran-attack\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}