Originally Posted by roystake

Irans quest for the bomb

Will the world survive a nation that seems so irresponsible and willing to suppress and enslave its own people once it achieves nuclear weapons status and the ability to deliver them regionally? Will they set off a fatal firestorm or just blackmail the world into submission? Will they use the weapon they so desperately seek to destroy their greatest enemies - the USA and Israel? How can the world reason with a nation such as Iran and take a chance that they are willing to use the weapon that they are seeking? Only one nation has ever used a nuclear weapon and that is the United States. The world has been instilled with a understanding that it should never happen again. The problem today is that once the proliferation starts, nations without controls or beliefs that GOD is on their side, the world can be gone in a literal flash.

The world of reason needs to develop metholds of dealing with the unreasonable. One can ask how can we solve such a vexing problem? I do not have the answer but I do know that we do not have an unlimited timeline. One way or another the unreasonable will achieve nuclear status and if the world is not turned into a cinder, it will not be changed for the better.