If Israel succeeds in destroying Iran’s nuclear program, it would do the world a favor. Those who argue that Israel should live with a nuclear Iran should look no further than India’s bitter experience with its nuclear-armed neighbor, Pakistan. Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran’s revolutionary Islamist regime would be even more dangerous.
Twice before—Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007—Israel has prevented belligerent Middle Eastern dictatorships from developing nuclear weapons that would threaten the Jewish state’s existence and destabilize the region.
Pakistan is believed to have built the so-called Islamic bomb by the late 1980s. The country tested it in 1998. Experts estimate that Pakistan has between 170 to 180 warheads—deliverable by land, sea or air—in its nuclear arsenal. But apart from excitable Pakistanis on social media worried that Israel may target their country next, no one seriously talks about rolling back Islamabad’s weapons program.
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