I must take issue with this article because its primary focus is that an exchange of nuclear weapons between Israel vs Iran & Syria would result in Israel's not suffering as much from taking one or two nuclear bomb detonations as would "the other guys" suffer from Israel's vast number of deliverable nuclear weapons.
The sad fact is that once you're talking about an all out war involving the detonating of nuclear warheads in the land area of the Middle East, you're easily talking about total and complete annihilation of populations and civilizations; not only of the combatants, but also of all neighboring countries who border one or all of the combatants.
The probability is excellent that radioactivity will be carried by upper atmosphere wind currents all over the planet.
Only deranged madmen talk in terms of "victorious", " x...would emerge the victor", "x...is capable of absorbing two nuclear detonations on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and would sustain far less damage then predicted", etc.... .
Only the most ignorant could write or believe such foolishness.
Israel is such a tiny nation, today arguably the most densely populated country per square km. in the world, that to absorb even ONE nuclear detonation would for all practical purposes mean no more Israel. Same goes for Syria, Jordan, Egypt. Iran is three times the size of Texas or larger -- a series of blasts over Tehran would leave Iran consisting only of goats and sheepherders in the countryside, all suffering and dying from radiation sickness.
As for those who mistakenly believe that "neutron" bombs, the so-called "tactical" nukes, don't release much radiation...that's all a bunch of pure B.S. - ask any knowledgeable nuclear expert and they'll tell you that even the so called "tacticals" release enough radiation and blast to wipe out large populations and cities.
Question: What's the half-life of the radioactive poisonous dust released from all the depleted uranium shells fired in combat by the U.S.A. and Israel on an ongoing basis?
Answer: The poisonous radioactivity has a half-life of 4.5 billion years !
Anyone on this forum aware of the fact that Chernobyl's nuclear reactor explosion and meltdown left the surrounding land contaminated for the next 48,000 years?
And, it is nuclear reactors in Iran which will be targeted should hostilities occur.
The half life of plutonium? 234,000 years!
Nuking Iran and Syria may well be inevitable, but the outcome will be unpredictable and have far reaching negative ramifications throughout the world.
We should all seriously pray that such an event not have to take place.
Americans and others won't take kindly to Jews the day that their children and families are falling ill to radioactive fallout carried in the winds from Middle Eastern battlefields and then released here in our water and land.
Iran should have been taken out long long long ago...now it's way past due almost to the point of improbable, thanks to weak and indecisive leadership in Israel out to appease the Muzzie lovers of the world. Five years ago it could have been done without talk of tactical nukes...just plain old bunker busters could have stopped those mamzers dead in their tracks for the next ten years. Had Chaim Ben Pesach been leader of a Kahanist Government in Israel, the Mamzer Mullahs would never have dared to acquire nuclear technology, and the first time they would have opened their big mouths to threaten genocide on the Jews would have been the last time that they ever again opened their mouths.