If Iran got the bomb...

[Jenius]

Israel would be something like this...
http://www.wimp.com/britain/

Doesn't this suit the 'wiped off the map' idea? Let this be a reminder that Iran can't obtain nukes!!!

b.t.w, can anyone spot e.t?

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

Was that some kind of Cold-War scenario?

Off-Topic: Some of the hair and clothes on that video where funky, the 80's never did know well did they.

[constantinople]

hopefully that never happens...

[Bert]

No, Israel will shoot down Iran's missiles which are either cold war relics from Russia or in-house developed from north korea. Then they'll launch their basket of, say 300 nukes at Iran. We'll point and laugh.

[SAPPEROIF]

I really hope we don't go to war with Iran......it will be messy..I'll go willingly...but it will be messy.

[mogsniper94]

He was melting like a snickers bar under a blowtorch.!!!!!

[PSU_Jew]

Bloody hell, I think he crapped himself.

[koozya]

not good very not good

[Mr.K]

Is it "The War Game" but in color? That movie was banned from TV.

[Jani.R]

Is it "The War Game" but in color? That movie was banned from TV.

No

That is "Threads" which is old british movie (80s, bit earlier than Day After) and shows the outcome of Nucler War between Soviets & Americans.

And do you know what was the reason for the war in the movie? Iran. p-)

[iGrooCk]

ouch.......

[Seiran]

He was melting like a snickers bar under a blowtorch.!!!!!

Speaking from experience?? lol

[Ghostwolf]

Right, and don't forget Israel has nuclear weapons as well, and a lot more than Iran can poop out of its rear end in a year.

[Jani.R]

Right, and don't forget Israel has nuclear weapons as well, and a lot more than Iran can poop out of its rear end in a year.

The most realistic estimation for Irans nukes is 2011-2014.

[evanfitz]

I think anyone near in sight of an 80 megaton nuclear warhead would be either melted or overwhelmed by the intense heat.

btw, I like the part where ET is melting.

[tobigforyou]

if Iran got the bomb:
http://www.olsza.krakow.pl/~freeze/foto/lake_america.jpg


pcture this but in iran

[DE_Six]

Geez, thank G-d the Cold War never went "hot"...Talk about mutually assured destruction (MAD doctrine, how fitting).

I was just (re-)watching The Fog of War the other day. To think we came that close more than once...

On topic though, Iran's rhetoric is one thing, I don't think they would launch a first strike on Israel. He may sounds crazy, but Ahmadinejad is rational enough (let's hope) to know it would be the end of Iran. There's going jihad and going jihad...

I think Iran wants the bomb primarily to be a regional power and to protect itself from attacks (from the US, but eventually from other countries as well).

The nuclear club is already too big for the common good of humanity. Let's hope they never get it.

[Blarney]

If Iran got the bomb...we'd need a newer version of Dr. Strangelove.

[MK-ULTRA]

Well, from a rational point of view based on regional balance and politics, and since Israel and Pakistan has nuke, it is kind of "common sense" for Iran to seek nuke weaponnery.

But I think Israel won't even allow them to have the technical hability to produce them and will bomb the facilities before they get to build a single one, has they have done in 1981 (?) with Iraq (bombing of Osirak reactors with F-16s).

After all, the actual president of Iran, Ahmadinejad, said that Israel was "heading toward annihilation"...

[Generation Kill]

And why would Afghanistan be turned into a lake if Iran got the nuke?
I was hoping to see a lake in place of Iran, as most likely the U.S would attack it if they got nukes

[Azide]

And why would Afghanistan be turned into a lake if Iran got the nuke?
I was hoping to see a lake in place of Iran, as most likely the U.S would attack it if they got nukes

Agreed, tobigforyou be more origional next time.

[Jenius]

And why would Afghanistan be turned into a lake if Iran got the nuke?
I was hoping to see a lake in place of Iran, as most likely the U.S would attack it if they got nukes

I don't think he had a picture for Iran in lake form so he used the Afganistan one to give you the idea. He also says 'picture this but in Iran'. Read the whole thing :-|

[QRO?]

If this was from the 80's, the producers must have had pretty speculative version of the "superfires" model already available, because they estimated that a 200+ MT landing on GB would put 2/3 of houses in the "fire zones". I'm highly sceptical, because the whole superfires theory is a pacifist nuclear weapon disarmament lobby invention which takes the wooden houses of Tokyo, Hamburg and Dresden (cities which hadn't been burned down completely for hundreds of years and so were mainly of old wooden construction), alledges that dropping a few high KT, low MT range nukes on them would cause enough hot spot fires over the whole area of high calorie IR radiation absorption, and for the fires to sustain themselves to create firestorms of hurricane wind velocities. More credible military theories based on simulations that take into account the much less wood structures in modern cities as well as the blast effect collapsing houses and mixing any flammable materials with huge amounts of dirt and inflammable debris, show that superfires are highly unlikely in most of the high devastation footprint.

But then again, hopefully we will never get empirical validation to either theory...

[AmericanImperialist]

The most realistic estimation for Irans nukes is 2011-2014.
o rly?
.........

[QRO?]

The most realistic estimation for Irans nukes is 2011-2014.I'd like to know whose estimate. FAS and ISIS estimate 2009 the earliest, if Iran is really doing it or is going to start tomorrow. But how "realistic" are these estimates when there is no information available to confirm or even strongly suggest that Iran is pursuing nukes instead of fuel?

[I'mOnlyHalfPolish]

one thing ive wondered, would the palestinians and the arabs (persians too i guess) be willing to have the palestinian people turn into "collateral damage" for a bid to destroy Israel? since im assuming many would be killed in a bombing as well? probably doesnt really matter to the types that would wanna do this anyhow, just a thought

[Airborneranger4israel]

whats with et?

[Jenius]

whats with et?
Small film budget p-)

[Jenius]

Actually, I should have changed the title of this thread from 'If Iran got the bomb' to 'When Iran gets the bomb', if the UN keeps this diplomatic agreement crap up. I don't think sanctions will stop them either. That's not going to stop Iran. An ultimatum, maybe. They're that crazy. I wonder when the fireworks will fly over Tehran, if you know what I mean.

[Bert]

one thing ive wondered, would the palestinians and the arabs (persians too i guess) be willing to have the palestinian people turn into "collateral damage" for a bid to destroy Israel? since im assuming many would be killed in a bombing as well? probably doesnt really matter to the types that would wanna do this anyhow, just a thought
Seeing as the palestinians have no qualms about strapping a bomb belt on their young ones and sending them to die in Tel Aviv, I highly suspect so.

[a_very_ex_STAB]

Was that some kind of Cold-War scenario?

Off-Topic: Some of the hair and clothes on that video where funky, the 80's never did know well did they.
It was from 'Threads' broadcast on TV in Britain in the early '80s. I remember seeing it as a teenager.
Terrifying stuff seeing your familiar environment being blasted even when it's just on TV.

[PaddyASCUK]

"Threads" was about the effects of a nuclear bomb on Sheffield. Sadly, it was a work of fiction and Sheffield still stands :(
Sheffield was chosen as the centerpiece for the story, as at the time, South Yorkshire Council, led by "Red" David Blunket had declared itself the "Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire" and also a "Nuclear Free Zone" and the BBC were trying to be ironic I think

[david2999]

hopefully that never happens...
almost did though :|
http://stanislavpetrovtribute.ytmnsfw.com/

[a_very_ex_STAB]

"Threads" was about the effects of a nuclear bomb on Sheffield. Sadly, it was a work of fiction and Sheffield still stands :(
Sheffield was chosen as the centerpiece for the story, as at the time, South Yorkshire Council, led by "Red" David Blunket had declared itself the "Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire" and also a "Nuclear Free Zone" and the BBC were trying to be ironic I think

What the evil liberal, commiefornicating, jihadi-sympathizing BBC taking the mick out of a left winger - surely you cannot be serious

[astro]

Wow what a memory trip. I've never forgotten seeing this as a kid, and being sent to bed as it was just *too* scarey! (or too much of a reality check?)