The events depicted in Maverick wouldn’t be the first time a country used a small group of fighters to blow up a rival’s nuclear program in 1981, a group of Israeli Air Force F-16s destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq, a raid known as Operation Opera. ( The purpose of the NPT, which entered into force in 1970, was to limit nuclear weapon ownership to the five countries that already had them: the U.S., Russia, China, France, and the U.K.)
The nuclear facility, Admiral Bates (Charles Parnell) says, is also being developed in violation of a number of treaties that removes India, Pakistan, and Israel from consideration, as all have developed (or are suspected to have developed) nuclear weapons but are not signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Vote for the best TV series finale in the latest Trial by Content ! In Trial by Content, Dave, Joanna, and Neil will debate pressing questions in pop culture and you-the listener-will decide who’s right. Not to mention the fact that an attack on any of those countries would immediately escalate into a major conflict. The target is an uncompleted uranium enrichment site, which eliminates Russia, China, and North Korea from the target list, because those countries already have nuclear weapons-thousands of them in Russia’s case. Knowing nothing else about the film, the specifics of the mission briefing make Iran the most likely country. Specifically, that I could do so before government agents showed up to whisk me away to parts unknown for undermining the foreign relations of the United States. My editors came to me, the idiot who six months ago wrote a long column about how Russia was no longer the technothriller enemy it used to be, confident that I could identify the anonymous villain in Top Gun: Maverick. To do so would court a diplomatic kerfuffle from which the country would stand to gain nothing.īut like Maverick, Rooster, Hangman, and their buddies, I was given a mission. Bill, so naturally the film doesn’t say whose nuclear program Maverick and his students are ordered to annihilate. The Top Gun films are the Department of Defense’s greatest recruiting tool since the G.I.
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