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> 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:

> 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.

sterlind 6y ago
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.
astrea 6y ago
Didn't the Hiroshima bomb have a much smaller effect radius than modern nuclear weapons?
- TaylorAlexander 6y ago
  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.
thereare5lights 6y ago
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.
umvi 6y ago
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"
throwaway743 6y ago
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/ https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Doesn't look like even that would wipe out Israel in one go
- sillysaurusx 6y ago
  It's humbling to see just how powerful the largest nukes are. https://i.imgur.com/FXmpY0t.png https://i.imgur.com/FXmpY0t.png (permalink: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=32.0629215&lng=34.7757053&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=47553&ff=52&psi=20,5,1&zm=8 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.

sterlind 6y ago

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.

astrea 6y ago

Didn't the Hiroshima bomb have a much smaller effect radius than modern nuclear weapons?

TaylorAlexander 6y ago
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.

thereare5lights 6y ago

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.

umvi 6y ago

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"

throwaway743 6y ago

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/ https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Doesn't look like even that would wipe out Israel in one go

sillysaurusx 6y ago
It's humbling to see just how powerful the largest nukes are. https://i.imgur.com/FXmpY0t.png https://i.imgur.com/FXmpY0t.png (permalink: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=100000&lat=32.0629215&lng=34.7757053&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=47553&ff=52&psi=20,5,1&zm=8 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.