Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

That's a valid concern. However, any potential radioactive contamination would generally be localized and far less severe than the environmental fallout from a nuclear explosion

Still a nuclear weapon with equally adverse ramifications, just less effective as a weapon.

These missiles don't exist because they don't make any sense. The nuclear fallout renders them unusable and they provide no advantage over conventional rocket engines for warfare. Same reasons why the US abandoned their nuclear powered aircraft. The US was developing these engines for interplanetary use to save weight and space on fuel but abandoned them in the early 70s.
 
An analysis of the latest bone headed idea by Israel, a complete land blockade of Iran.

 
Still a nuclear weapon with equally adverse ramifications, just less effective as a weapon.

These missiles don't exist because they don't make any sense. The nuclear fallout renders them unusable and they provide no advantage over conventional rocket engines for warfare. Same reasons why the US abandoned their nuclear powered aircraft. The US was developing these engines for interplanetary use to save weight and space on fuel but abandoned them in the early 70s.
I don't think that's an accurate conclusion. The U.S. didn't abandon nuclear thermal propulsion because it was scientifically unworkable or because of radioactive fallout. The NERVA program was largely canceled due to budget cuts and changing priorities after the Apollo era. In fact, nuclear thermal propulsion is once again being actively researched for future space missions because of its significant performance advantages over chemical propulsion.
 
The whole world besides a few countries, is an existential threat to Iran, America, South America, Japan etc, are all threats and accomplices

Unfortunately if Iran doesn't strike all of them pre-emptively just in case then it is just a matter of time before they hit Iran like Ukraine did

By doing nothing Iran is giving consent to be attacked first just like Ukraine did recently
 
I don't think that's an accurate conclusion. The U.S. didn't abandon nuclear thermal propulsion because it was scientifically unworkable or because of radioactive fallout. The NERVA program was largely canceled due to budget cuts and changing priorities after the Apollo era. In fact, nuclear thermal propulsion is once again being actively researched for future space missions because of its significant performance advantages over chemical propulsion.

I didn't say that. NERVA was for propulsion in space and did not have these issues. The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion did. The official reason for that too was given as budgetary but later disclosures revealed "severe crash and radiation hazards" as the primary reason for internal opposition. Both technologies had already been demonstrated as workable.
 

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