Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, in an article posted on April 1, warned President Donald Trump that if he bombs Iran “really bad things” are going to result from it. He mainly focused on the risk of nuclear contamination should the U.S. bomb Iran’s Fordow and Natanz enrichment plants, along with the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Kucinich assumes that, if the U.S. attacks, it will strike Iran’s nuclear sites with both the conventional 30,000 lb Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb and the B83 nuclear gravity bomb—with a yield of 1.2 megatons. He doesn’t specify if he’s been told this by a knowledgeable, trustworthy source, or because he assumes it, because the B-2 stealth bomber, at least six of which have been deployed to the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, is the only aircraft that can carry and deliver each of those weapons.
“An attack by B-2 bombers on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would destroy the targeted sites, and unleash radioactivity endangering the lives of tens of millions in Iran and hundreds of millions beyond,” Kucinich writes. “Due to radioactive drift, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, the U.A.E., Bahrain, eastern Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan also would be severely impacted.
“In practical terms, given proximity to Iran, and the direction of the wind, high levels of radiation-induced illness, some fatal, and sharp increases in cancer and birth defects would occur. Radiation would contaminate and ruin food supplies, agricultural land, farm animals, and water resources hundreds and even thousands of miles from Iran.
“The eastern regions of Türkiye, northwestern India, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan would be exposed to moderate contamination. Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Egypt’s Sinai could be affected, depending on the wind. …
