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US NASA Missile Slams Moon, Warning For Iran By US, Israel On Nuclear Weapons?
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Joel Leyden Jerusalem, Israel ---- October 9, 2009 ..... It definitely sounded innocent enough. NASA in a search to discover if there's water on the moon, bombed the moon today with a rocket weighing some 2.2 tons, carrying the destructive force equivalent that of 1.5 tons of dynamite. In pre-dawn hours, a US spacecraft punched a deep hole in the moon's south pole to find out whether ice was hidden in a crater that hasn't seen sunlight in billions of years. Two rockets which had the mass of a transit van - penetrated the moon's surface at 5,600 mph, more than twice the speed of a bullet. As rumors started to spread out on the Internet asking "who did the risk assessment?" and "we're not risking sending the solar system out of balance?" these words were quickly neutralized. Bruce Betts, director of projects at The Planetary Society , said in an email to Computerworld that this morning's moon crashes would have no negative impact on the moon or the Earth. "The spacecraft are far too tiny compared to the moon, in fact, to have any significant effect on the moon's orbit or dynamics," he added. "The impact might be likened to a gnat hitting the windshield of a truck." While millions from the US, UK, Mexico and Japan to Canada, France, Israel and China watched their TV sets for any sign of an explosion on the moon, there was very little chatter on the Internet about a 79-million USD message being sent to Iran and other Islamic terror nations and groups. Any student of history knows that space exploration as we know it, did not have it origins in a Buck Rogers American science fiction adventure. But rather as Russia, at the urging of their Ministry of Defense, launched the Sputnik satellite on October 4, 1957. And the US responded. Although on July 29, 1955, US President Dwight Eisenhower announced that the US would launch an artificial satellite, they failed to be first. The US defense establishment then set it sights as being the first to place a man on the moon and succeeded on July 20,1969. This has been labeled as the great space race, it has been nothing more and nothing less as to which nation will control the skies with weapons. Ronald Reagan enhanced this drama with his "Star Wars" program. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposal by former US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use space-based systems to protect the US from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Just days ago the Pentagon acknowledged that it had moved up the date for deployment of a massive bomb capable of penetrating deeply buried enemy facilities. Most believe the weapon is designed for a possible attack on Iran nuclear facilities, but officials will not make that connection. It is officially called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Informally it is referred to as a new and larger type of Bunker Buster. It weighs more than 13 metric tons. The US Defense Department will not confirm its capabilities, but analysts believe it is designed to penetrate up to 60 meters of earth, or a thick layer of concrete, before exploding. Last month US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said an attack against Iran would only "buy time," delaying Tehran's dispute nuclear program by about three years. That same month Iran conceded that it had begun building a new uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom. With Iran threatening to "wipe Israel off the map" former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and present Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have reportedly been asking the US for a green light to attack Iran nuclear weapon building facilities. There are three locations where Iran facilities are producing elements for nuclear weapons. Israel officials named these sites as: Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges produce enriched uranium; Isfahan, where 250 tons of gas are stores in tunnels; and Arak, where a heavy water reactor produces plutonium. Netanyahu called Iran "the major terrorist-sponsoring state of our time. He says that Tehran "could give those nuclear weapons to terrorists or give them a nuclear umbrella that would bring terrorism beyond our wildest dreams." "Although Twitter and Facebook are quite less expensive and dramatic, this 79-million dollar bombing of the moon leaves no doubt in anyone's mind that if the US cares to destroy Iran nuclear facilities which are buried deep underground, they have the proven capability of doing so from outer space," says an Israel security analyst. "Don't expect the US to ever admit that it has, is or will use weapons in space.
Since January 27, 1967, the US has been party to the Outer Space Treaty, formally known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies. This treaty bars Parties to the Treaty from placing nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth or installing them on the Moon. It exclusively limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications. However, the Space Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit. Such as a few non-nuclear missiles that could wipe Iran's nuclear facilies off the map." "As for hitting the moon with missiles to find water, only last year NASA deployed a Water Recovery System. It departed Nov. 14, 2008 from the Kennedy Space Center on the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The Water Recovery System, makes it possible to transform ordinary urine into water so pure it rivals the cleanest on Earth." "If Israel was forced to go it alone it could use low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, but it appears that the US and Israel are very much on the same page when it comes to a nuclear Iran. The US will not allow it and is making it very clear that they want Iran to stand down. It's ironic that on the same day that US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave the order to use the moon for target practice. But it just might be that this new, potent precision US weapon in space which may ultimately keep the peace in the Middle-East and beyond."
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