Topic: Iran should be allowed to build the Bomb

MontyB · June 22nd, 2012

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Originally Posted by perseus

In the interests of balancing power in the Middle East. So claims Kenneth Waltz Emeritus Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Waltz

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl...d-get-the-bomb

It would certainly give the regions bully boy Israel, something to think about the next time they want to throw some weight around. However, perhaps they are really mad enough to go to war with Iran, unlike the US and USSR, or India and Pakistan?

The problem with this is that it is still only an assumption that they want to build a bomb, now personally I don't really care whether they do or the don't want one if we are not going to bother about India, Pakistan, North Korea or Israel joining the nuclear club then we should not worry about Iran and I agree it would quieten US and Israeli aspirations in the region down a bit which wouldn't be a bad thing.