{"id":50956,"date":"2018-05-11T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50956"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:04","slug":"armstrong-israeli-rocket-experience-shows-bomb-shelters-matter-as-much-as-interceptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/armstrong-israeli-rocket-experience-shows-bomb-shelters-matter-as-much-as-interceptors\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Israeli rocket experience shows bomb shelters matter as much as interceptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/israeli-rocket-experience-shows-bomb-shelters-matter-as-much-as-interceptors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in the National Post<\/a> about airstrikes and bomb shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The conflict between Israel and Iran emerged from the shadows early Thursday morning. Forces allegedly backed by Iran\u00a0fired 20 rockets\u00a0from Syria into Israel\u2019s\u00a0Golan Heights\u00a0positions. Israel replied with 50 airstrikes against\u00a0Iran\u2019s military infrastructure in Syria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Israel is worried about Iranian-backed forces like Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon. It claims they have\u00a0100,000 to 150,000 rockets. To keep them from getting more advanced missiles, Israel periodically launches airstrikes there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The latest happened Tuesday, striking\u00a0a weapons base in Syria. One in April\u00a0triggered an earthquake-scale explosion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Other countries face rocket and missile threats too. On Wednesday,\u00a0Houthi rebels fired ballistic missiles\u00a0(allegedly Iranian-supplied) at Saudi Arabia. Iran\u2019s growing missile arsenal alarms its Arab neighbours. Half a world away, the U.S. worries about North Korean ICBMs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/israeli-rocket-experience-shows-bomb-shelters-matter-as-much-as-interceptors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in the National Post about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[594,4395,5513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50957,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions\/50957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}