April 13, 2006

More Details on Israel’s Nuclear Submarines

From NewsMax:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The silent submarine forces of the United States, Israel and Iran are all ramping up for a hot war, adding yet more tension to an already volatile Middle East - made all the more uneasy by Iran's relentless march to become a nuclear power.

Leading off the always lurking and deadly wolfpacks is Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, each carrying U.S.-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles - armed with nuclear warheads.

The Israel submarines can remain at sea for a month and are equipped with six torpedo tubes appropriate for conventional torpedoes. The tubes can also be used to launch the nuclear-tipped cruise missiles - missiles that could reach some of the targeted sites in Iran critical to its nuclear development.

Last February, when Victor Davis Hanson spoke at the Wednesday Morning Club in Los Angeles, I asked him during the Q & A about Israel's air- and sea-mounted nukes. He responded that it was only because Israel has such weapons, that he believed Israel could be around in twenty years.

Given the many statements by Ahmadinejad that he considers himself at war with the West and intends to destroy the West and Israel, it is very possible that the only way to prevent nuclear war, initiated by Iran and targeting Israel and the U.S., is to destroy Iran's nuclear program.

At last, a really serious scientific study.

Ads on Demand?

From Business Week:

In May, TiVo is rolling out what may sound like the ultimate in chutzpah: ads on demand. 

Ads are entertaining enough that a service that offered the opportunity to select which ads you want to see, could work. I know I'd want to see a lot of the ads for movies, TV shows, Macs, iTunes,  and any number of other things, particularly if I were thinking about buying the products being advertised. And if I heard through the grapevine that some ad was particularly entertaining, I'd probably have a look at it.