vM's Enthusiastic Near East Cousin Defeats US/Israeli Attack Plans ?

[mongers]

vM is going to be mighty conflicted about this story, hopefully he doesn't implode in a puff of logic/slideruleera.

Bunker-busting - Smart concrete

Mar 3rd 2012 | from the print edition

Iran makes some of the world's toughest concrete. It can cope with earthquakes and, perhaps, bunker-busting bombs

A DUAL-USE technology is one that has both civilian and military applications. Enriching uranium is a good example. A country may legitimately do so to fuel power stations. Or it may do so illegitimately to arm undeclared nuclear weapons. Few, however, would think of concrete as a dual-use technology. But it can be. And one country—as it happens, one that is very interested in enriching uranium—is also good at making what is known as "ultra-high performance concrete" (UHPC).

Iran is an earthquake zone, so its engineers have developed some of the toughest building materials in the world. Such materials could also be used to protect hidden nuclear installations from the artificial equivalent of small earthquakes, namely bunker-busting bombs.

To a man with a hammer....
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Please go to the economist to read the rest of the article:
http://www.economist.com/node/21548918

[CountDeMoney]

It can cope with earthquakes

A shitload of dead earthquake victims say otherwise.

[Ed Anger]

Oh, those wily Persians. With thier magic concrete.

[mongers]

It can cope with earthquakes

A shitload of dead earthquake victims say otherwise.

Well they weren't making this until fairly recently.

It's certainly an interesting dilemma, multi-billion dollar weapons systems having to take account and defeat, a on the face of it, quite mundane material.

[CountDeMoney]

It's certainly an interesting dilemma, multi-billion dollar weapons systems having to take account and defeat, a on the face of it, quite mundane material.

Yeah, and the Soviets used pencils in space.  Guess what? THE SPACE PEN WON BITCH

[grumbler]

It's certainly an interesting dilemma, multi-billion dollar weapons systems having to take account and defeat, a on the face of it, quite mundane material.

Yes, I am sure that weapons systems have never had to deal with mundane materials before.  Quite the interesting dilemma, indeed, wot wot? 

[Siege]

The muslim propaganda machine at work, trying to convince western people the upcoming airstrikes are going to fail.

[Razgovory]

Siege.  Exhibit: A