Iran, not Israel, is Arabs’ Worst Enemy, Survey Reveals – Defense/Middle East – Israel News – Israel National News

Posted by Matt in December 21st, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Arab Countries, Arab World, Arabs, Doha Debates, Enemy Number One, Iran Nuclear, Israel National News, Israel News, Israel Nuclear, News Iran, News Israel, Nuclear Threat, Nuclear Weapon, Public Enemy, Public Enemy Number, Public Enemy Number One, Regional Security, Respondents, tehran, Worst Enemy

Iran’s nuclear threat to regional security has replaced Israel as the Arab world’s public enemy number one for the Arab world, according to an Arab survey commissioned by the Doha Debates group.
A majority of respondents from 18 Arab countries said Iran is a bigger threat than Israel, and nearly a third think that Tehran is [...]

The perils of an Israeli airstrike on Iran – Times Online

Posted by Matt in September 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Development Of Nuclear Weapons, Iran Military, Iran Nuclear, Iran Online, Israeli Airstrike, Military Experts, Nuclear Threat, Perils, Political Challenges, Surprise, tehran, Tel Aviv

Yet military experts in Washington and Tel Aviv acknowledge that a surprise airstrike would be likely to succeed only in delaying Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. It would also present daunting logistical and political challenges with no guarantee that even a sustained assault on known facilities would eradicate Tehran’s nuclear threat.
The perils of an [...]

The Iran Attack Plan, in Wake of News on Qom – WSJ.com

Posted by Matt in September 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Arab Neighbors, Iran News, Israel, Missiles, News Iran, Nuclear Capabilities, Nuclear Threat, Nuclear Umbrella, Population Centers, Qom, survival, Thermonuclear Weapons, Turkey, Wsj

While Iran is larger than Israel, its population centers are so vulnerable to Israeli thermonuclear weapons that Israel already is a major “existential” threat to Iran. Moreover, provoking its Arab neighbors and Turkey into developing their nuclear capabilities, or the U.S. into offering them a nuclear umbrella targeted on Iran, could create additional threats, as [...]

New Details of Cold War Nuclear Threat – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in September 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, 1980s, Cold-War, Cuba, Fidel Castro, moscow, New Details, Nuclear Threat, Nytimes, Radioactive Cloud, Soviet Nuclear Strike

In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow dissuaded him by patiently explaining how the radioactive cloud resulting from such a strike would also devastate Cuba.
New Details of Cold War Nuclear Threat – NYTimes.com

Sources: Is 2012 Doomsday for Real?

Posted by Matt in September 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Ally, Boomers, Bunkers, Collision Course, Continuity, Disasters, Doomsday, Foes, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Threat, Nuclear War, Risk Analysis, Rogues, shanghai, Source Articles, Twentieth Century, Underground Bunker, War Of The World, Weimar

This blog post lists the source articles for an article I wrote called “Is 2012 Doomsday for Real?”
Sources for this article:

The Next War of the World
Institute For Human Continuity: The IHC, Keeping You Safe For ‘2012?
Chance of nuclear war is greater than you think: Stanford engineer makes risk analysis
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict [...]

Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb

Posted by Matt in June 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Amazon, Arab Governments, Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Commercial Partner, Drastic Consequences, Economic Interests, Emanuele, Energy Policy, European Priority, Mushroom Cloud, Ncri, Nuclear Arsenal, Nuclear Threat, Ottolenghi, Senior Officials, Sunni Arab, Taheri, Two New Books, Vantage Points

Six years ago in Washington, the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed to a stunned world how advanced Iran’s nuclear programme was. In just a few years, Tehran could have a nuclear arsenal. But the international community is divided on this threat. Russia and China view Iran as a tool to counter [...]

Iran’s nuclear threat ‘real, dangerous’: Russian analyst

Posted by Matt in March 13th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Array, Big Mistake, Europe, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Iran, Iran Military, Iran Nuclear, iranians, Military Expert, Missile Development, moscow, Nuclear Threat, Russia, Russian Military, Strategic Nuclear Forces, Vladimir Dvorkin

Russia and the West would be making a big mistake if they ignored or underestimated the potential missile and nuclear threat coming from Iran, a Russian military expert has said.
“Iran is actively working on a missile development programme. I won’t say the Iranians will be able to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles in the near future, [...]

Nuclear threat hangs over the subcontinent

Posted by Matt in November 30th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Conflict, India, Pakistan, Bombay, Citizens, Corpses, Gunmen, Hotels, India, Nuclear Threat, Pakistan, Security Status, Subcontinent, Terror Attacks

With the citizens of Bombay still mopping up the blood on their streets and counting the corpses in their hotels, attention has quickly turned to who is behind last week’s terror attacks. India says it has evidence that the gunmen who tore through its richest city were trained in Pakistan, and raised its security status [...]

Iran tests new long-range missile

Posted by Matt in November 12th, 2008 | no comment

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[See Iranian footage of the Sajjil missile test]
Iran says it has successfully tested a new long-range surface-to-surface missile that is capable of hitting targets in Europe.
Known as the Sajjil, it was described on state TV as a high-speed, solid-fuel missile with a high level of accuracy.
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Iran ‘Test-Fires’ Missile
Sky News, UK - 1 hour ago
Iran says [...]

Eastern Europe gets jittery over Russia

Posted by Matt in August 18th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Europe, Russia, Bloody Battle, Conflict, Eastern Europe, Eastern Nations, Fear, Good Friend, Jitters, Missile-Defense, moscow, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear Threat, Poland, Russia, Soviet Empire, United States, Warsaw, Waves

WARSAW — Signing a missile-defense deal with its good friend the United States has earned Poland nothing less than the threat of nuclear attack from Russia — a threat that might not sound so empty these days, given Moscow’s bloody battle with Georgia.
That conflict has plunged Europe into serious crisis, sending waves of jitters through [...]