{"id":25,"date":"2012-03-06T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-03-18T01:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:44:51","slug":"executive-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>To read more, view or download the <a href=\"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Executive-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><em>The Ayatollah\u2019s Nuclear Gamble<\/em> is a\u00a0detailed, scientific discussion\u00a0of the human and environmental consequences of an Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Years of careless fanaticism from Iran\u2019s belligerent dictatorial theocracy has placed the lives of many Iranian citizens in danger.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\">In our assessment, it is highly likely that the physical and thermal casualties as the result of the strikes will exceed 5,000 personnel at the nuclear sites. The secondary civilian casualties as a result of exposure to the release of toxic and radioactive materials could increase this number to over 80,000 citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\">Tens, and quite possibly, hundreds of thousands of civilians could be exposed to highly toxic chemical plumes and, in the case of the destruction of operational reactors, radioactive fallout in Arak and Bushehr.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\">The potential long-term political and psychological impact of military strikes on the Iranian population cannot be underestimated. An entire generation will likely feel enmity toward those who supported the attack, or failed to prevent it. Rather than dismissing them as \u201ccollateral damage,\u201d strong moral, strategic, political, and military arguments exist for counting the Iranian people\u2019s interests as a prime factor in the nuclear dispute.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 22px;\">Iran\u2019s leaders risk a military confrontation that not only promises the destruction of Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, but also shackles generations to illness, misery, poverty, and dependence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read more, view or download the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Ayatollah\u2019s Nuclear Gamble is a\u00a0detailed, scientific discussion\u00a0of the human and environmental consequences of an Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Years of careless fanaticism from Iran\u2019s belligerent dictatorial theocracy <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/?page_id=25\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nucleargamble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}