The well-documented history and current existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons are widely accepted in the scientific community, but it would be political suicide for any American politician even to mention this subject before the international news-media.

Americans and Europeans willingly assume that Islamic countries would pose a risk to world peace if they obtained even a small nuclear-power plant; the irony is that many already do. But the idea that Israel would be hiding its own “nukes” (while calling on the USA, Europe, and the United Nations to sanction Iran, for example, for nuclear development and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is oddly difficult to accept.

In any event, if a country next to yours was secretly stockpiling nuclear weapons and had both long-distance missiles and jet bombers to deliver its nukes, what would you do? Of course, you’d threaten “Mutual Assured Destruction” — you buy or build your own nukes and aim them back toward your stealthy aggressive neighbor. It’s not intelligent, but we’re only human. Maybe this could be solved by a USA President inviting the quarrelsome neighbors to the White House for an informal “beer chat”?

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