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Originally Posted by Praxus
If they get one, they could kill millions of American citizens, that is unacceptable.
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'if they get one'.
a) there is a timescale involved.
b) iran, while not a democracy by any stetch of the imagination, has a government that is vastly closer to 'the people' than north korea has. suicide bombing - for that is what such an iranian attack would be - is not something done by those who feel connected to their society.
none of those conditions could be said to apply to the north korean government.
the iranian government has few reasons to attack the US with a nuke and lots of reasons not to. iran also has other enemies than the US - heretical as it may seem to some americans, theirs is not the only country in the world - pakistan has nukes, as does israel. iran has no nukes and an airforce that no one would describe as first-class, israel has 200 (at least) weaponised nukes and a very well equipped and trained airforce. yet iran is a threat to israel...
'they could kill millions of american citizens'.
so could we. we have 192 nukes on trident D5 SLBM's.
what'cha gonna do?