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Making Life Harder for Iran's Bomb Advocates

| August 7, 2015

If you were an Iranian official trying to make the case that Iran should go ahead and build a nuclear bomb, you would find that your job just got much, much harder. Far from paving a path to an Iranian bomb, as some critics argue, the Iran deal, if implemented, will greatly reduce the chance that ten to twenty years from now, the world will be facing an Iran with nuclear weapons.

Why? There are several reasons. First, the need to protect against foreign attack is always among the best arguments bomb advocates have. But having just signed a deal with the United States and all of the rest of the world's largest military powers, Iran's risk of suffering a major foreign attack just plunged to almost nothing. Even Israel could not realistically carry out a unilateral strike in the face of opposition from all of the world's major powers. So Tehran's bomb advocates have just had a key argument seriously undermined....

Continue reading: http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature/why-iran-cant-get-doesnt-need-nuclear-bomb-13514

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For Academic Citation: Bunn, Matthew.“Making Life Harder for Iran's Bomb Advocates.” The National Interest, August 7, 2015.

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