Iranian stalemate
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 1:28AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: A Nuclear Debate: Is Iran Designing Warheads?, By WILLIAM J. BROAD, MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID E. SANGER, New York Times, September 28, 2009

I find the essential question irrelevant: Iran wants us to know it can--at relatively short notice--field nuke weapons. Once it's achieved that threshold, it basically doesn't matter whether or not it goes all the way--secretly--in the meantime.

Iran has achieved its asymmetrical deterrence.

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