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Norman

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Norman McSwain, MD
Tulane Univ Surgery
504 988-5111

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Subject: Tremendous Trauma Capabilty - War & Peace

One might project that massive Super Bunker Buster Bombs are a deterrent to 
 war, not an instrument of destruction and counter attack.    See  below:   

US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran's Qom  site discovered
DEBKAfile Special Report 
October 7, 2009, 11:21 AM (GMT+02:00) 

Estimated location of Qom enrichment plant
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the  target-date for 
producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B)  Massive 
Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters  underground before 
exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report  that top defense agencies and 
air force units were also working against the  clock to adapt the bay of a 
B2a Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the  bomb.  
The Pentagon has ordered the number of bombs rolling off the  production 
line increased from four to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the  
discovery that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant under a  mountain 
near Qom - a discovery which prompted this week's international outcry.  
Congress has since quietly inserted the necessary funding in  the 2009 
budget.  
All this urgency indicates that the Obama administration has  been 
preparing military muscle to back up the international condemnation of  Iran's 
concealed nuclear bomb program, its sanctions threat and his willingness  to join 
the negotiations with Iran opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have  to 
take into account a possible one-time surgical strike against its 
underground  enrichment facility as a warning shot should its defiance continue. In  
particular, the world powers this week demanded that Iran open up all its  
nuclear facilities and programs to full and immediate international 
inspection.  Failure to do so could bring forth further US military action. 
According to our military sources, the earliest date for the  accelerated 
Pentagon program to produce a super bunker buster bomb mounted on a  stealth 
bomber is December 2009 or January 2010. This too is three years ahead  of 
its original schedule.  
Pressed into service are two US Air Force research centers for  work on 
adapting the radar-evading stealth bomber to the giant bomb: the Air  Force 
Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the Munitions  
Directorate and Air Armament Center, both headquartered at Eglin Air Force Base  
in Florida.  
Last month, DEBKAfile quoted Air Force Lt. Gen.  Mark Shackelford as 
disclosing that the Pentagon had decided to accelerate the  production of 10-12 
giant bunker buster bombs in response to intelligence  received of Iranian and 
North Korean underground nuclear  plants.

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