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Article: It's a mad mad world: Iran and Israel are not the only Middle East countries chasing a nuclear capability. Thomas Land analyses the atomic race taking place throughout the region.
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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IRAN HAS JUST inaugurated facilities for the production of plutonium. Israel has announced the purchase of nuclear-capable submarines from Germany dedicated to a 'second strike' role hitherto untried in the Middle East. Egypt and Turkey have announced enormous new national atomic power development plans essential for joining a nuclear arms race with Iran in order to maintain regional stability. All this could push Saudi Arabia into taking the decision to build or purchase the bomb.
The Middle East has woken up to the nightmare principle of mutual assured destruction (MAD), invented during the bleakest days of the Cold War, which ended with the demise of the ...