Comments on: The Doomsday Scenario: An Apocalyptic Book Report http://donklephant.com/2006/04/15/the-doomsday-scenario-an-apocalyptic-book-report/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: smchris http://donklephant.com/2006/04/15/the-doomsday-scenario-an-apocalyptic-book-report/comment-page-1/#comment-13846 smchris Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:46:38 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2119#comment-13846 "Do you really believe it will take Iran five times longer to build a bomb in the twenty-first century than it took us to invent it and then build it back in the 1940s?" About as sure as I am that Chad won't have a manned space program any time soon. Available resources _do_ matter. Apparently, the level of enrichment just achieved is pathetic compared to what is necessary for a weapon. So, yes, there is time for continued negotiation. After that, I guess I would be more worried if I were Israel. Iran has ICBMs that can reach the U.S.? “Do you really believe it will take Iran five times longer to build a bomb in the twenty-first century than it took us to invent it and then build it back in the 1940s?”

About as sure as I am that Chad won’t have a manned space program any time soon. Available resources _do_ matter.

Apparently, the level of enrichment just achieved is pathetic compared to what is necessary for a weapon. So, yes, there is time for continued negotiation. After that, I guess I would be more worried if I were Israel. Iran has ICBMs that can reach the U.S.?

]]> By: Jimmy the Dhimmi http://donklephant.com/2006/04/15/the-doomsday-scenario-an-apocalyptic-book-report/comment-page-1/#comment-13751 Jimmy the Dhimmi Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:58:44 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2119#comment-13751 From Herb Meyer at the <a href='www.http://www.americanthinker.com' rel="nofollow">American Thinker</a>: "A consensus seems to be emerging among intelligence and military experts that Iran’s blustering president has, so to speak, gotten in front of his own headlights – that despite his threats to unleash nuclear Armageddon his country is at least 10 and perhaps 20 years away from having its first nuke. Oh, really? The United States invented the nuclear bomb, and the elapsed time from starting the Manhattan project to Hiroshima was <em>four years.</em> During the six decades since then the knowledge about how nuclear weapons work and how to build them has become widely disseminated. And with the advent of computers, manufacturing technology has become cheaper – and much, much faster. Question for all these experts: Do you really believe it will take Iran five times longer to build a bomb in the twenty-first century than it took us to invent it and then build it back in the 1940s? Are you sure?" From Herb Meyer at the