The Dangers of Nuclear Bombast
US President Donald Trump has refused to recertify the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, an agreement that he once predicted would "lead to a nuclear holocaust." Unfortunately, by creating more perverse incentives for hostile regimes to pursue nuclear armaments at all costs, Trump has made the nightmare scenario he fears even more likely.
MADRID β In the summer of 2012, the international relations theorist Kenneth N. Waltz published an article titled βWhy Iran Should Get the Bomb,β in which he argued that a nuclear-armed Iran would reestablish a desirable balance of power in the Middle East, by acting as a counterweight to Israel.