President Obama is a lying sack of spin, along with the Republican leadership for their silence in the face of these transparent lies. The US is out of compliance of the international standards of NPT, not Iran. The US and Israel threaten regional stability, security, and opportunity for Iran. The US is unaccountable, holding NPT as an empty promise, and actively instilling fear for the future.
Details of Israel's nuclear arsenal...
- Arsenal Size: Estimated to have between 100 and 200 (bombs, missile warheads, and possibly non-strategic weapons). Some reports place the number as high as 400.
- Key Delivery Systems:
- Strategic: Aircraft (F-16s, F-15s); Land-based missiles (Jericho I, Jericho II); Sea-based (cruise) missiles (3 Dolphin-class submarines armed with Popeye Turbo SLCMs that are possibly nuclear-tipped).
- Non-strategic: Allegations that Israel possesses nuclear artillery shells and nuclear mines.
- Estimated Destructive Power: 1500-4000 kt
- Military Fissile Material Stockpiles: Plutonium: 0.45 mt +/- 25%
- Disarmament and commitments to reduce arsenal size: Has not signed the NPT.
- Future commitments: In support of non-discriminatory, verifiable FMCT. The treaty should not cover existing stockpiles.
- Nuclear Weapons Policies: Neither confirms nor denies possession of nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear testing policy: No confirmed nuclear weapon tests.
- Party to PTBT (banning atmosphere, in outer space, and under water test); signed the CTBT.
- Use of Nuclear Weapons: No known nuclear doctrine. Not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis that "we are on the eve of an...
