A Sobering View of the Iranian Nuclear Issue

The most dangerous situation in the world right now is the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Islamic powers who believe in an apocalyptic application of these weapons to bring on the end of the world. The problem is that so long as this view is in ascendancy in the Iranian world the acquisition of nuclear weapons seems likely to precipitate their use and once that happens it is hard to predict whether it will lead to nuclear escalation. If it does there will indeed be apocalyptic consequences.