Should We Fear Nuclear-Armed Iran?
Washington, D.C. - Months before he died in May last year, Kenneth Waltz, one of the world’s most renowned international relations scholars, wrote his last article for the Foreign Affairs magazine. It was an unusual piece about Iran.
The article had a provocative title on the cover of the magazine: Why Iran should get the bomb.
Here I quote a few lines from the introduction of his article:
”Most U.S., European, and Israeli commentators and policymakers warn that a nuclear-armed Iran would be the worst possible outcome of the current standoff. In fact, it would probably be the best possible result: the one most likely to restore stability to the Middle East.”
Of course Iran itself says it has not intention of building a atomic bomb, and is currently in direct negotiations with the United States on how to solve the longstanding issue.
Today, we are going to discuss whether the world should fear a nuclear armed Iran.
Key guests:
- James Phillips, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
- Alex Vatanka, a senior analyst from the Middle East Institute here in the US capital.
- Henry Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). He previously served in the Pentagon as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy
The article had a provocative title on the cover of the magazine: Why Iran should get the bomb.
Here I quote a few lines from the introduction of his article:
”Most U.S., European, and Israeli commentators and policymakers warn that a nuclear-armed Iran would be the worst possible outcome of the current standoff. In fact, it would probably be the best possible result: the one most likely to restore stability to the Middle East.”
Of course Iran itself says it has not intention of building a atomic bomb, and is currently in direct negotiations with the United States on how to solve the longstanding issue.
Today, we are going to discuss whether the world should fear a nuclear armed Iran.
Key guests:
- James Phillips, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
- Alex Vatanka, a senior analyst from the Middle East Institute here in the US capital.
- Henry Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). He previously served in the Pentagon as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy