Actually, I have a better idea. just introduce the Iranians to farking. let them disrupt their own portion of the earth's crust.

Social Security is a national ponzi scheme. no amount of money is going to keep it going. National Education problems are not simply solved by throwing more money at the problem. And the US Government is cutting weapon systems one after another. very soon our entire defense posture will be compromised.

and then spend all of our time talking about how England and Canada are tramps and France dresses too slutty.

Not to mention that the idea is that these are "secret" bunkers. If you start laying rebar and pouring concrete over top of them, you are kinda shouting out, "HEY, THERE'S A SECRET UNDERGROUND BUNKER HERE". kinda defeats the purpose of putting it underground in the first place. If I was Iran, I'd do my nuclear testing in a nice safe place. Turkey. After all, the US isn't going to start bombing Turkey anytime soon.

Actually, really, both countries have been run by some bad people. I don't really like either of them.

yeah. the US government just adores telling people what to do. "You there, go vote for a leader" "You, over there, foster religious freedom." "Hey you, stop oppressing your people and your neighbors." "enough with that sponsoring international terrorism." Damn big bullies, these united states people. Must be why everyone hates us. all this disgusting freedom.

I'm guessing that their bunkers are below the water table.

Actually, he has a point. (though not a horrendously good one. if we're at a point where we're using nuclear weapons, international treaties aren't going to really be a factor.

Already taken by that Movie.

Because digging deeper and pouring more concrete costs money. Money that they could instead be spending on the Nuclear research. the more expensive and dangerous we make their nuclear program, the more likely they are to give it up.

you obviously know very little about atomic devices if you think that they can be set off by someone blowing up the facility. In order to form the chain reaction necessary for an atomic explosion, the forces must be very precisely directed. And with the radioactive material so far underground already, there's no danger of releasing radiation into the surrounding countryside. Its far more dangerous to let the Iranians have a working nuclear device than to worry about putting extra large pot holes all over their country. Which is sad, because if their government cared at all for their people, they'd realize that pissing off the US is a good way to look more like large parking lot than an industrialized country.

You are talking about a time scale in days, if not weeks. I was referring to a time scale in hours, if not days. Emergency systems of those type are designed to withstand the EMP to allow for immediate deployment. More long term recovery would certainly involve fixing the civilian infrastructure. But an EMP would not hamper our ability to deploy a conventional (or even nuclear) counterstrike. Heck, if it could, then you wouldn't need to even target even near the ground, as the range of the EMP is significantly larger than the blast radius.

Incorrect. In a war situation, our military is mostly EMP Proof. its designed that way. but civilian life is not, so it would be affected. given the choice of retaliating or restoring services, our military would do their duty and retaliate. Then they'd work on restoring the internet so that you could tweet about WWIII

Patton, not MacArthur. Though maybe McArthur too. but Patton was in Germany, not MacArthur.

I once new a guy who found a unique ex military profession. he went back into the military. This guy signed on at 18 as an enlisted. did 20 years. after retiring at 38, he got dispensation to re-enlist, but this time as an officer, and then retired again as a full bird at 58 years old. (airhead)