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Nuclear Iran, Revisited

On March 9th, 2006 in an entry called Nuclear Iran, Wulf said:

Face it, we aren't going to do anything that will stop [Iran] from getting the bomb. The only thing that can stop Iran now is a catastrophic earthquake or a large meteor that destroys the sites where the technology is being developed.

I hadn't thought about it at the time, but Major Mike over at My Sandmen offers a few man-made alternatives in his recent article Responding to Hugh Hewitt's "Arguments Against Striking Iran" Post. While his ideas may not prevent Iran from getting the bomb, it may at least slow them down. Here is a sampling:

Destruction, denial of use, barricade, harassment and interdiction…are all ways to preclude the use of a facility or an operational site. Destruction is not the only way to preclude the Iranians from continuing their development of nuclear material.

Access to and from known sites can be denied through direct air interdiction, air-delivered scatterable mines, continuous harassment, site blockading, and supply vehicle targeting. Eventually a combination of these activities will result in the “virtual” denial of use of the facility; stymieing or halting production of nuclear material. Targeting entrances, ventilation systems, electrical service systems and power generation systems would all have the same…denial of use, result.

Then all we'd have to worry about is the Straits of Hormuz.