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Only 20,000 Israeli dead? Well, that's alright then


Source: Ynetnews
April 19, 2007

"A 20 kiloton nuclear bomb over Tel Aviv would kill 20,000-25,000 people, not 250,000 as has been claimed."

This was the assertion of senior arms researcher and former head of military studies at the Armament Development Authority, Dr. Yitzhak Ravid.

He told attendees at a Tel Aviv University conference on missiles Tuesday that while "such an attack is very serious … it is not the end of the Zionist dream."

By exaggerating the Iranian threat, he said, Israel was playing right into the hands of the regime in Tehran.

Ravid went on to question Iran's ability to even deliver a warhead as large as the one the US dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.

Pooh-poohing the Iranian missile threat, he said images recently shown to Israelis of an Iranian "missile" test were actually rockets.

Only a single Shihab missile had ever been fired successfully, he averred.

But a senior lecturer in strategic studies at the university, Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, gainsaid Ravid

"In Hiroshima, 120,000 people were killed, and Tel Aviv has a higher population. How could 20,000 be killed?" he wanted to know.

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