That's the splash over at Drudge right now. He's reporting that a British paper will break this story in tomorrow's editions and there is no further information right now. We know little about this story yet, but a couple things should be said in advance of it. First, nations draw up military plans all of the time for wide variety of realistic and less than realistic scenarios. It does not mean that they intend to initiate those plans. After all, we have plans to invade Canada, if necessary. Second, if the plan is to use tactical nukes, that is very different from the nukes most of us are familiar with. These are lower yield bombs designed to destroy buried targets, by and large. Third, I hope this paper understands the gravity of the report they are about to make. If this plan is a contingency plan and not an imminent plan, then they are going to be significantly enflaming the situation in the Middle East, and very irresponsibily at that.
Update
The
article is up. I think this is probably the key paragraph:
Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.
It is going to be one wild year.
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