Another Santayana Moment

[1]22 SEP 1979, 00:53 GMT -- US VELA SATELLITE 6911, SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO DETECT NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, REPORTS DUAL FLASHES OF LIGHT INDICATING A NUCLEAR DETONATION IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC.

The Defense Intelligence Agency and its contractors conclude that a nuclear test was conducted jointly by South Africa and Israel.

An ad hoc presidential panel contradicts that analysis and suggests a meteoroid struck the satellite causing it to sound a false alarm.

Which was it? What should've been the U.S. response? Can you decide?

Wikipedia [2]

Nuclear Weapons Archive [3]

George Washington University [4]

But perhaps the questions we should really be deciding is does Iran have nuclear weapons; and if so, should the U.S. attack Iran and North Korea”.

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[1] http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/46278
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident
[3] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Safrica/Vela.html
[4] http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/index.htm
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