Today, despite faulty parts, cyber-missiles, ‘severe hot weather’, and international sanctions, Iranian engineers have finally started loading fuel into the core of the Bushehr power plant with the view to producing nuclear energy by the new year.
Tehran claims it needs the power to meet a growing demand for energy, but the West remains convinced that this is a merely cover for the production of nuclear weapons.
The defiance of Iran only grows stronger in the face of international outrage. Veiled, and failed, attempts from the West to prevent today’s step towards nuclear capability, simply add to the prestige and kudos surrounding Ahmedinejad and his cheeky disregard for international condemnation.
Rather than fretting over the inevitable, the West should turn its attention to other smaller, impressionable states considering the advantages of nuclear capability, and cajole them away from the nuclear arms race.
Like all vices, vehement banning of them only makes them appear more glamorous. If nuclear weapons weren’t so cool and dangerous, governments would not be so keen to get their hands on them.
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