Mark 'ZenPundit' Safranski is a major friend of this weblog. That's part of what makes his disagreement with Tom on the issues of 'use' and 'rationality' when it comes to going nuclear even more interesting.

For one thing, he gives four examples of 'nuclear overconfidence or hubris causing negative effects short of WWIII'.

You should read it and the 13+ comments.

Tom's comment on Mark's post:

No offense to Mark, but these examples are all early nuke age ones and none pass the so-what test. There is nothing in anything Iran has done or said, all rhetorical flourishes aside, that signals they think they can survive nuclear war. Mao blew hot and cold on the subject too, but that didn't change the reality of nukes either.