
Nuclear weapons are strategic military assets that remain a significant focus of global geopolitical ambitions and proliferation concerns. While their actual deployment is constrained by a robust international nuclear taboo, these weapons continue to shape security dynamics as states actively pursue or maintain the capacity to acquire them.

“to destroy Iran, you're going to have to use nuclear weapons. Okay. You can't destroy it without obliterating it as nuclear weapons do.”

“Indeed, every world leader already understands that nuclear weapons confer a certain type of insurance policy against regime change. Nothing is learned by seeing regime change in action.”

“the nuclear taboo is strong enough that I I feel like we aren't we aren't there yet in terms of that being the next logical move.”

“It does have some of the ingredients of a broader confilration, especially when you add on the table the possibility of deployment of nuclear weapons, which I don't think either one of us can rule out.”

“It does have some of the ingredients of a broader confilration, especially when you add on the table the possibility of deployment of nuclear weapons, which I don't think either one of us can rule out.”

“Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons.”