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

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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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