earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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US military action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global nuclear cascade

"If abandoning a nuclear program leads to regime change, relinquishing weapons results in invasion, and remaining at the threshold invites military strikes, the logic goes, then security is only truly achieved through the possession of nuclear weapons – and not by negotiating them away or halting development before completion."

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US military action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global nuclear cascade

The Trump administration has called on Iran to permanently end its nuclear program. But threats of force may undermine effort of nonproliferation.

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Iran is a “threshold state” — a country with the technical capacity to produce nuclear weapons but that has not crossed the final line of production.

A destabilized threshold state poses three risks: loss of centralized command over nuclear material and scientists, incentives for factions to monetize or export expertise, and acceleration logic — actors racing to secure deterrence before collapse.


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