Alternative Views: Love the Iranian Bomb!

Ohio State Poltical Scientist and national security-type guy, John Mueller, has just given an interview to the Atlantic Monthly where he insists that the world is worrying just a bit too much about Iran and the nuclear bomb.

Although, I don’t agree with him entirely, I do agree that even if Iran were to get the bomb it would never use it as a first strike weapon.

Although there are all sorts of people who think that Iran’s leadership are super religious nuts who would use it to strike Israel, these people don’t really know Iran, or nuclear strategy for that matter.

Israel (G-d forbid), having a near 40 year lead on Iran in terms of nuclear weapons, could literally reduce Iran to a historical memory in just a moment were Iran be so foolish to take such a move.

If anything, last June’s internal turmoil reveals that the ruling class will do anything in its power to survive.

From the Atlantic interview:

Ok. Lets assume that Iran gets the bomb. What happens?

A bunch of other countries will run around in hysterics for a while, but in the end, probably nothing. What China has done with the bomb has been nothing. It’s just been a huge waste of money. Basically, if Iran gets the bomb, they may find that it’s completely useless, except to stoke their egos for a while.