by NoOneImportant » Mon Dec 01, 2014 4:09 pm
John wrote:
Generational Dynamics predicts that there will be a new war between Arabs and Israelis, refighting the 1948 war between Jews and Arabs that following the partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel, and that there is no guarantee that Israel will survive that war.
While I don't believe that any rational person would have any significant issue with the above prediction, it does raise several questions.
1. What happens to the several hundred Israeli tactical, and strategic nukes (it must be presumed that after so many years of having nukes, that Israel has elevated their strategic devices to very large yield thermonuclear devices)?
2. In any resultant conflict, what happens to the Israeli nuke armed subs.
3. Are the Israeli subs armed primarily with nukes, or conventional weapons - an important question as nuke armed subs represent a latent persistent and enduring destructive potential.
4. In light of the recent purported rapprochement between the Saudis, and the Israelis; what will be Israel's position specifically in regard to Saudi Arabia, as it will affect the potential targeting of Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh in any resultant area wide conflict?
5. Will there be a "winner" in any resultant conflict, in the traditional sense of the word (given, not just the explosive potential of the use of nukes, but also the resultant enduring radioactive contamination - contamination arising from both nuke detonation, but also from the bombing of multiple operating reactors; I am thinking Chernobyl, and Fukushima)?
John wrote:
[quote]Generational Dynamics predicts that there will be a new war between Arabs and Israelis, refighting the 1948 war between Jews and Arabs that following the partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel, and that there is no guarantee that Israel will survive that war.[/quote]
While I don't believe that any rational person would have any significant issue with the above prediction, it does raise several questions.
1. What happens to the several hundred Israeli tactical, and strategic nukes (it must be presumed that after so many years of having nukes, that Israel has elevated their strategic devices to very large yield thermonuclear devices)?
2. In any resultant conflict, what happens to the Israeli nuke armed subs.
3. Are the Israeli subs armed primarily with nukes, or conventional weapons - an important question as nuke armed subs represent a latent persistent and enduring destructive potential.
4. In light of the recent purported rapprochement between the Saudis, and the Israelis; what will be Israel's position specifically in regard to Saudi Arabia, as it will affect the potential targeting of Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh in any resultant area wide conflict?
5. Will there be a "winner" in any resultant conflict, in the traditional sense of the word (given, not just the explosive potential of the use of nukes, but also the resultant enduring radioactive contamination - contamination arising from both nuke detonation, but also from the bombing of multiple operating reactors; I am thinking Chernobyl, and Fukushima)?