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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by yongjik on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:55PM (#26798236)
> One nuke and Israel will just be gone, completely. Iran is probably capable of this, or close.

    Area of Hiroshima: 350.1 square miles
    Area of Israel: 8,019 square miles
Yeah I'd say [citation needed] for that.

> From Israel standpoint the logical step is to bomb Iran military into the Stone Age.

This really isn't helping you, because if you're an Iranian and your government says "That country over there says their only logical choice is to bomb us into the stone age!" well what do you expect to happen?

Of course, predictably, both countries can (and will) play the same game, distracting people from actual issues like corruption. In the end, both governments win, while people loses everywhere.

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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by umvi on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:13PM (#26798550)
Nukes are way more powerful than they were at the end of WW2, and most of southern israel is not populated. I'm pretty sure an H-bomb to Tel Aviv would kill >20% of Israel's population. So yeah, not exactly "One nuke and Israel will just be gone, completely", but still "one nuke and 1/5 of the population is gone, and countless more injured"
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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by throwaway743 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:21PM (#26798685)
Depends on yield. Doesn't seem like any nuke used/tested had a yield higher than the Tsar Bomba. Not sure about untested/unused stockpile.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Doesn't look like even that would wipe out Israel in one go

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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by sillysaurusx on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:26PM (#26798772)
It's humbling to see just how powerful the largest nukes are. https://i.imgur.com/FXmpY0t.png

(permalink: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=32.062921...)

You're technically right -- the blast radius isn't covering all of Israel -- but third degree burns across ~50% of the entire landmass would be hell.

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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by thereare5lights on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:11PM (#26798512)
Your argument would be stronger if you added up the area of the inhabited areas of Israel rather than the total area, but yea, one nuke wouldn't take out a country unless the country was just a single city like Singapore.
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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by sterlind on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:00PM (#26798309)
you can use more than one nuke. also, a Hiroshima-level blast on Tel Aviv would be pretty catastrophic even if it doesn't obliterate everything.

hydrogen bombs are where things really get scarier though.

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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by astrea on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:04PM (#26798381)
Didn't the Hiroshima bomb have a much smaller effect radius than modern nuclear weapons?
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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by TaylorAlexander on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:09PM (#26798479)
In this hypothetical the bomb is constructed by Iran who has never made one before. So it prob wouldn’t match the best performance possible.
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