Nuclear “non-proliferation” – preventing the spread of nuclear weapons beyond states that already have them – has been held up as the rationale for the US-Israeli war on Iran. In his statement ...

For decades, nuclear weapons have been treated as the ultimate arbiter of international politics. They were supposed to deter great-power war, impose caution on leaders, and anchor what strategists ...

The lesson that Tehran will take away from this conflict is that it needs an ironclad deterrent in the form of a nuclear weapon. The primary objective of the war now unfolding following the attack by ...