Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Crippling Iran's nuclear ambitions

Developing nuclear weapons is very energy intensive. It requires a LOT of electrical power. (look at why Oak Ridge, Tennessee was so important to the Manhattan Project).

If I wanted to disrupt Iran's nuclear ambitions without knowing all the nuclear sites I would go after the Iranian power grid.

2 comments:

Mover Mike said...

Oooh, what a great idea! That is much better than trying to bomb 300+ sites at one time. I hope they don't have auxiliary power.
Mover Mike

M. Simon said...

If they have auxiliary power at the levels required such a power plant(s) would quickly show up on thermal imaging sattelites.

Bomb the intakes and exhausts if the auxiliary generators are not directly accessable.

Rinse repeat.

In addition you now have identified the locations of important infrastructure.