I was listening to the BBC last night on my way home and they were interviewing a professor from Israel. The interviewer asked him if he was worried about Iran getting nuclear weapons and the guy said no. Shocked, the BBC guy asked why, and the professor's answer really made me think, and I wanted to get your thoughts on this.
Basically the guy said we should go ahead and give Iran nukes. He said once they had them, they wouldn't be able to "throw as much as a match" at Israel. If they did, the Israeli government would have no clue whether or not the incoming missile was a nuke or not, and would have only 10 minutes to counter attack. Not knowing if they were about to be hit with a nuke, Israel would then launch their arsenal at Iran. As they guy put it, "Israel has the capability of completely leveling Iran, and if the Iranians didn't want to see their 5,000 year old civilization wiped of the face of the map, they wouldn't launch anything towards Israel." But he said that only worked if Iran had known nukes. Otherwise, Israel would only be able to launch a conventional counterattack.
So what do you think? Would nuclear Iran actually stabilize the area?