An article from 2012 on nuclear brinksmanship

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Here is an article from the days when the Guardian was still occasionally worth reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... n-roulette

I feel it is quite relevant at the present time.

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Another article from the Grauniad, from 2012, wherein it is discussed the idea in American foreign policy circles that an Iranian nuclear weapon is undesirable precisel because it would be a deterrent in the region

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... deterrence