{"id":394,"date":"2006-06-08T09:18:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=394"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:20:39","slug":"nuclear-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I saw on the morning news the footage of the first successful synthesis of uranium by the Iranians.<\/strong> I saw a scientist holding up this little capsule of radioactive gas with this theatrically triumphant attitude. As I heard the pundits clucking on TV, I reminded myself, &#8220;OK, Iran&#8217;s finally gone nuclear, but who&#8217;s the real nuclear threat in the Middle East?&#8221; Every time I asked myself this, I kept coming up with the same answer:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-395\" title=\"nuclearthreat550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nuclearthreat550w-474x600.jpg\" alt=\"nuclearthreat550w\" width=\"474\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nuclearthreat550w-474x600.jpg 474w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nuclearthreat550w-118x150.jpg 118w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nuclearthreat550w-395x500.jpg 395w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/nuclearthreat550w.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>BIG HINT: <\/strong>it begins with an &#8220;I&#8221;, ends with an &#8220;L&#8221;, and has &#8220;S-R-A-E&#8221; in the middle. Has anyone else noticed how the US Press and the State are shitting themselves over Iran finally managing to produce some crummy-assed smidgen of enriched uranium, while failing to point out that Israel has enough nukes to make a ring of craters around itself?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a calm, close look, here. On the one hand, we have a nation that&#8217;s just now reached the <em>Pinky And The Brain<\/em> stage of nuclear development; on the other, a nation with at least 200 functional nuclear weapons of various types &#8212; most of which were supplied by the USA &#8212; on standby, ready to light the place up. Those of us out here who aren&#8217;t profoundly retarded can see who the real nuclear threat is here, and would really appreciate it if the US Media would quit jerking us around.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nuclear Threat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/nuclearthreat\/nuclearthreat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 676k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw on the morning news the footage of the first successful synthesis of uranium by the Iranians. I saw a scientist holding up this little capsule of radioactive gas with this theatrically triumphant attitude. As I heard the pundits clucking on TV, I reminded myself, &#8220;OK, Iran&#8217;s finally gone nuclear, but who&#8217;s the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,82,168,9],"tags":[136,135,137],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-middle-east","category-palestine","category-war-and-peace","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}