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We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran

Barry R. Posen

The New York Times, February 27, 2006 [Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, April 19, 2007]

A Middle Eastern arms race is a frightening thought, but it is improbable. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, among its neighbors, only Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey could conceivably muster the resources to follow suit.