Sell Your Dominoes Someplace Else, We're All Stocked Up Here
Updated: 2010-09-02 18:32:27
Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog Sell Your Dominoes Someplace Else , We're All Stocked Up Here Kingston Sep 02, 2010 1 Friend of NoH Johan Bergenas hit the online pages of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to make that case that an Iran armed with nuclear weapons , while something we should seek to prevent , would not cause a cascade of proliferation in the Middle East . He makes a persuasive case , because , wellâ¦Johan is a persuasive guy . And did I mention that the piece has a great title : âThe Nuclear Domino Mythâ Nice . Come get : some But there's one problem with this nuclear domino scenario : the historical record widespread nuclear proliferation 65

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