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ChaiDomains.com: "he potential danger of its military aspect was not the possibility of a nuclear strike against some countries, but the ability to assume a more bold approach in dealing with the international community after becoming a nuclear power.

“The real threat is that Iran, which is already ignoring all resolutions and sanctions issued by the UN Security Council, will be practically ‘untouchable’ after acquiring nuclear-power status, and will be able to expand its support of terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah,” the expert said.
Dvorkin has had a role in writing all major strategy documents for the Strategic Nuclear Forces and the Strategic Missile Forces. As an expert in the field he participated in preparing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and the START I and START II pacts, and has made a significant contribution to formulating Soviet and Russian positions at negotiations on strategic offensive arms control and reduction."

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The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran | Foreign Affairs

The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran | Foreign Affairs: "his debate is increasingly characterized both by growing pessimism about whether the international community's diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions can prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and by guarded optimism that the consequences a nuclear-armed Iran are manageable. Writing in these pages last spring, James Lindsay and Ray Takeyh, both of the Council on Foreign Relations, maintained that the United States could contain Iran even if it developed a nuclear arsenal by establishing clear "redlines" that Tehran would not be allowed to cross without risking some type of retaliation."

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Al-Arabiya Director Calls Nuclear Iran ‘Most Dangerous Threat That is Facing Our Region in 100 Years’ | CNSnews.com

Al-Arabiya Director Calls Nuclear Iran ‘Most Dangerous Threat That is Facing Our Region in 100 Years’ | CNSnews.com: "I’ve spent a lot of time in the Middle East … and I will tell you that in my meetings with various leaders in the Middle East, there isn’t one of them that isn’t focused on Iran,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said at the Washington, D.C., premiere of “Countdown to Zero,” a movie about nuclear proliferation.

In audio of his speech, obtained by CNSNews.com, Kerry said, “There isn’t one of them in either the Gulf States, or Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, other countries, that hasn’t said that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, that they feel compelled for their defense to go down that road. So it is patently clear that a world free of nuclear weapons, countdown to zero, is a world that does not pass through Tehran’s nuclearization.”

Kerry further said, “It’s not just that Tehran would abuse it’s nuclear power to project its own agenda, but it is also the fear that as other nations proliferate, any terrorist group then has greater target of opportunity in order to get a hold of nuclear fissile material. "

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Iran missile, nuclear threat 'real, dangerous' - Russian analyst | Russia | RIA Novosti

Iran missile, nuclear threat 'real, dangerous' - Russian analyst | Russia | RIA Novosti: "Iran has consistently defied international demands to halt its nuclear program and insists it plans to use enriched uranium fuel produced at a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz in its first domestically-built nuclear power plant, in the town of Darkhovin, which is scheduled to become operational in 2016.
Tehran announced in late February that it had 6,000 operating centrifuges at Natanz and was planning to install a total of 50,000 over the next five years.
Commenting on the Iranian nuclear program, Dvorkin said the potential danger of its military aspect was not the possibility of a nuclear strike against some countries, but the ability to assume a more bold approach in dealing with the international community after becoming a nuclear power."

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NoNuclearIran (119)

NoNuclearIran (119): ""intellicide" becomes an available option; it seems to require a lot of computing power by way of instrumentation and control, so there's "Stuxnet" in the works; and, finally, it requires well defended political power, which thugs may possess, to get the money and write the checks, and that may be addressed-- all of these without losing an Nth of yellowcake or processed nuclear material. There is the New War, a little bit like sailing and its long periods of gentle nothin' spiked by small but intense periods of high drama"

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NoNuclearIran (100)

NoNuclearIran (100): "Whether with Hizbollah rocket stockpiles or with the Iranian nuclear threat, Israel, NATO, and others in the world with interest, which may or may not be most of the rest of the world, has always to wrestle with the scale and timing of a defense preemptive action, and that whether the acton may entail derailing a physics laboratory or bombing a production faciility--too soon: too easy to rebuild; too late: we don't want to think about it."

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FrumFind.org » Blog Archive » Trend Setting Or Trend Watching?

FrumFind.org » Blog Archive » Trend Setting Or Trend Watching?: "Sophistication or worldliness is not what it once was. The people who opinions we once valued have faded into irrelevance. People use to enjoy a lively political debate, because you could from someone by talking things over, arguing with someone, possibly swaying someone or get them to consider an alternate point of view, yes it took an amazing amount of patience, but sometimes you would change someone’s beliefs.
I do not know if it is just the crowd that I currently run with, or perhaps the new world order has truly taken over, but it just seems like nobody (and I do mean nobody) ever looks at the big picture anymore. Where can you find anyone these days who has their own original thoughts and ideas? Where are the rugged individualists who have a sense of exactly what the right thing to do is, and then just go out there and do it?"