Many believe that a war with Iran to prevent them from attaining or manufacturing nuclear weapons could be a little more difficult than expected. In fact even if the United States and allies stopped the Iranian radical regime by taking out the underground nuclear weapons facilities that they could simply rebuild them and in weeks, or months have the nuclear weapons again because Iran has over 75,000 engineers.

Where as this claim to quickness back to such technology after a strike on the research facilities may not be fully capable it is of interest to note. Indeed in the US by comparison, we have more than 3 million scientists. One individual Andy noted that indeed China is a strong ally of Iran and might come to their aid. Yet is China more of an ally with Iran or the US? Just because Iran is a customer of China for arms, does not mean they are strategically aligned militarily, yet such notions are often stated as if it is happening this week; "With China's rise t

o the preeminent global power” the world must not piss off Iran, as it could upset China. Yet China can never become the top nation on Earth, nor India for that matter without a helping hand from the United States.

Is Iran's alliances with China and its superior colleges and Universities able to keep up with the technology of nuclear weapons, even if all the research is destroyed and lost? Consider all this in 2006.

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