Maybe, but Trump has been talking about Iran being hit very hard after the midterms. He of course talks a lot of shit but embassy personnel have been told to evacuate a few days ago, usually a good indicator. Israel has been doing some type of probing flights with jets, possibly to provoke an Iranian response. You can't automatically trust the media but they are all reporting about an imminent attack.
Israel has turned up the rhetoric, how they are only waiting for a green light from Trump to start hitting civilian infrastructure. Bibi's talking about finishing Iran once and for all.
Let's see.
So then Trump is a fool to talk about Russia being a nuclear power. I think I have seen some claims here and there about Russian arsenal being in a sorry state but I haven't really seen any 'serious' people doubting their capability.
Do you think US nukes work?
I see some doubt there is even such a things as a nuclear bomb, Japan was firebombed
So you doubt Israel has nukes? I don't.
Iran hasn't tested a nuke, true. I guess Iran could also make a "dirty bomb" which would contaminate an area? Iran probably doesn't have a nuke but serious people don't seem to 100% positively rule it out.
But if Iran doesn't have it, haven't and can't test one, then the talk about them being 10 days away from nuking Israel and the US was complete shit. Bibi was just on Fox news saying Iran would very soon be able to nuke every single US city.
Iran might be "10 days away" from testing a nuke.
Once a country blows off a nuke in real time they are a legit nuclear power.
Israel has never blown off a nuke. Or have they?
Has another country blown off an Israeli nuke for them? France? USA? UK? Doubtful but possible.
South Africa?
Oh my! Read this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction"Collaboration with Israel
See also: Israel–South Africa Agreement
David Albright and Chris McGreal reported that South African projects to develop nuclear weapons during the 1970s and 1980s were undertaken with long-term cooperation from Israel.[28][29][30] The United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 of 4 November 1977 introduced a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa, also requiring all states to refrain from "any co-operation with South Africa in the manufacture and development of nuclear weapons".[31]
According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, in 1977 Israel traded 30 grams of tritium for 50 tonnes of South African uranium, and in the mid-1980s assisted with the development of the RSA-3 and RSA-4 ballistic missiles, which are similar to the Israeli Shavit and Jericho missiles.[32] Also in 1977, according to foreign press reports, it was suspected that South Africa signed a pact with Israel that included the transfer of military technology and the manufacture of at least six nuclear bombs.[33]
In September 1979, a US Vela satellite detected a double flash over the Indian Ocean that was suspected, but never confirmed, to be a nuclear test, despite extensive air sampling by WC-135 aircraft of the United States Air Force. If the Vela incident was a nuclear test, South Africa is virtually the only possible country, potentially in collaboration with Israel, which could have carried it out. No official confirmation of its being a nuclear test has been made by South Africa. In 1997, South African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad stated that South Africa had conducted a test, but later retracted his statement as being a report of rumours.[34]
In February 1994, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commander of South Africa's Simon's Town naval base who was later convicted of spying for the USSR, was reported to have said:
Although I was not directly involved in planning or carrying out the operation, I learned unofficially that the flash was produced by an Israeli-South African test code-named Operation Phoenix. The explosion was clean and was not supposed to be detected. But they were not as smart as they thought, and the weather changed – so the Americans were able to pick it up.[35][36]
In 2000, Gerhardt said that Israel agreed in 1974 to arm eight Jericho II missiles with "special warheads" for South Africa.[37]
In 2010, The Guardian released South African government documents that confirmed the existence of Israel's nuclear arsenal. According to The Guardian, the documents were associated with an Israeli offer to sell South Africa nuclear weapons in 1975.[9][10] Israel categorically denied these allegations and claimed the documents do not indicate any offer for a sale of nuclear weapons. Israeli President Shimon Peres claimed that The Guardian article was based on "selective interpretation... and not on concrete facts."[38] Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb and The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb, said "Nothing in the documents suggests there was an actual offer by Israel to sell nuclear weapons to the regime in Pretoria."[39]"
