(Image from Wikipedia)From The Washington Post:
The development of nuclear arsenals by both Iran and North Korea could lead to "a cascade of proliferation," making it more probable that terrorists could get their hands on an atomic weapon, a congressionally chartered commission warned yesterday.
"It appears that we are at a 'tipping point' in proliferation," the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States said in an interim report to lawmakers that was released yesterday.
The bipartisan panel, led by former defense secretaries William J. Perry and James R. Schlesinger, added that actions by Tehran and Pyongyang could lead other countries to follow, "and as each nuclear power is added, the probability of a terror group getting a nuclear bomb increases."
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My Comment: I think we still have a long way to reach that tipping point. The development of nuclear weapons .... and the maintenance of nuclear weapons .... are very expensive propositions. A country like Iran may end up spending billions to develop a bomb or two .... but to maintain such an arsenal can also easily run into the billions.
Put it this way .... if the development of nuclear weapons is a cheap undertaking, most countries in the world will be having nuclear arsenals right now.
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