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In reply to the discussion: It's Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too [View all]hunter
(38,312 posts)Nevertheless, that's not what I'm talking about.
Iran has a strong national identity. Iran is not going to nuke Tel Aviv for crazy suicidal religious reasons knowing full well they'd get ten-fold back and cease to exist as a nation, or even as a habitable landscape.
That's what I meant by suicidal. There are many nations willing to send their children into battle for even the flimsiest ideological or religious reasons, and the U.S.A. is one of those nations.
But the most powerful people of these nations are insulated from their crimes, and thus far tend to back away and reach some sort of agreement when there's a realistic danger of nuclear fire raining down on their own personal heads and properties.
If the U.S.A. is in any danger from nuclear weapons, the greatest threat is probably one of our home grown religious crazies. The breakdown of Air Force nuclear weapons security and the infiltration of right wing Christians into that branch of the military is scary, so much so that I think the U.S. Air Force should be shut down and it's "assets" redistributed among the Army and the Navy.