TRINITY – AT 8:39 A.M. ET:  It was in the New Mexico desert on this day in 1945 that the United States conducted the Trinity test – humankind's first test of a nuclear explosive, thus ushering in the age of atomic weapons.

It was only weeks later, on August 6, 1945, that the Enola Gay dropped the first operational atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  Please note how close the dates were, even in the rudimentary nuclear days of 1945. 

We are today once again dealing with the development of a nuclear weapon, this time by Iran.  And one piece of "information" given us by the usual suspects in Washington and the academic world is that, even if Iran gets "the bomb," it would take them years before they could develop a practical way to use it, such as mating a nuclear warhead to a missile.

The year 1945 proves how wrong that is.  Once the Iranians have a simple nuclear device, its wiring held together, as in the Trinity contraption, with masking tape, they can figure out a way to use it.  They could, for example, sail the device into an American harbor in the hold of a falsely flagged cargo ship and have a suicide crew set it off.

Or they could smuggle the device, in parts, across our southern border, aided by friends in Venezuela, and take out an American city.  We might not even be able to prove who did it.

In terms of the size of the hideous device, may I point out that we were firing nuclear artillery shells from our atomic cannon ("Atomic Annie," it was called) in the early fifties, and showing the tests live on the Today Show.  The core of the Trinity device was carried in the back of a sedan to the test site.

Iran is a critical danger to this country.  There are people trying to put us asleep.  Their ideological forebears tried the same in the 1930s, with success. 

July 16, 2012