IRAN, PUBLICITY, AND THE BOMB July 15, 2015

Iran wants to be important. An atom bomb is a marker of having arrived internationally. All the talk about Iran and the bomb is more important than actually having it. It gets Iran a lot of attention in the press and on TV. Otherwise who’d care what the ayatollahs think about anything? The only way to stop countries from getting the bomb for attention is for everyone to not have them. Ike offered to put A-weapons under UN control; a good idea then and a good idea now.