On Containment and the Possibility of a Nuclear Iran
Mary | Mar 17, 2010 |
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There’s been a lot of buzz recently over the use of a containment strategy to curtail the threat – or the eventuality – of a nuclear Iran. David Sanger wrote a piece in the New York Times that followed on the heels of an article in Foreign Affairs by the duo James Lindsay and Ray Takeyh; both discussed how containment could be employed to peacefully co-exist with a hostile Iranian regime.
While the implication that Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon is a foregone conclusion - which the Foreign Affairs article title (After Iran Gets the Bomb) suggests - is a little heavy on the fearmongering and designed more to attract readers than fairly represent the Iranian nuclear situation, the result has undoubtedly been increased attention to the spectre of a nuclear Iran...
