The efficacy of a strike on nuclear infrastructure

Submitted by ZSI (Israel), Jun 20, 2010 at 02:45

The question that I've had for a while is, the Iranians have been playing this game for quite some time now. They've been hiding their nuclear installations and dispersing them, so that a strike might put them back a bit, but would not stop their program. Does it make sense only to go after their nuclear infrastructure? Besides, whoever does it, will open up the dam(n) of terrorists and sleeper cells around the world. My father's opinion is instead of going after the nuclear infrastructure (which even if they get a bomb, might not be weaponizeable, e.g. able to be put onto a missle), is to destroy their leadership. It's their leadership that wants to start WWIII anyway and bring the hidden imam. This could help change the leadership and help the dissidents/uprisings at the same time.

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