Friday, January 20, 2012

Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran: Questions for Strategy, Requirements for Military Forces

From AEI:


by Thomas Donnelly, Danielle Pletka, Maseh Zarif
American Enterprise Institute
January 19, 2012
Though containment and deterrence are possible policies and strategies for the United States and others to adopt when faced with a nuclear Iran, we cannot share the widespread enthusiasm entertained in many quarters. Indeed, the broad embrace of containment and deterrence appears to be based primarily on an unwillingness to analyze the risks and costs described. It may be the case that containing and deterring is the least-bad choice. However, that does not make it a low-risk or low-cost choice. In fact, it is about to be not a choice but a fact of life.

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