| damkira said: Israel has had nuclear weapons.. for how long? If Iran gets them it, there is no reason to think they would use them. Mutually Assured Destruction and all..
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There was once a time during the cold war where the US and USSR almost fired nukes on each other because of a false alarm by a russian system that said the US launched a nuclear atack on them.
The only reason Mutually Assured Destruction didn't happen was that one russian officer went against his orders and refused to report the launch because he had a hunch it was false.
Additionally Israel VS Iran isn't nessisarily a case of MAD. Why? Israel is very tiny. The big reason MAD would happen between the US and USSR was that neither side would ever be able to mobilize enough missles to take out every major city and base that may have had missles stationed.
Israel? It'd be easy. Iran, less so since Iran's east coast is full of hills perfect for hidden stuff... however nobodies really worried about Israel firing first with nukes.
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