Kurt Mills

I mean, that's what autocracies have learned around the world, that the only guarantor, the only safeguard of their regimes are to get nuclear weapons.

I don't think the Iranians are actually there.

I think the Iranians have shown that they will do a deal with this president, that they will basically abandon any serious lunge towards nuclear weapons.

They have been fighting this zero enrichment issue.

But the level of enrichment that you need to get a nuclear weapon is not the level of enrichment that they're agreeing to go below.

They're talking about 3% enrichment.

That's not 100% enrichment.

That's not a nuclear weapon.

And I don't think we want to set the precedent that basically the US is just a totally dishonest broker, because then you will see other countries launch for the bomb.

You will see if the Iranians, if their regime can survive, they will launch for a crude weapon.

And so ironically, the number one thing that makes the world proliferate is the kind of extreme hawk neocon stuff that we've been pursuing or that Levin would prefer us to pursue.

Because if the Iranians go down, the Turks are going to go for the bomb.

The Saudis are going to go for a bomb.

The Japanese are going to go for a bomb.

The Koreans will go for a bomb.

And I think if our goal is to have less nuclear weapons in the world, that's a dangerous line.

Some argue, like Mearsheimer, that that actually might make the world safer.

I'm not sure I'm quite there, especially because we have the discrete goal of no nuclear weapon for the Iranians.

And I think that can be easily achieved.

And as I've indicated elsewhere, this is actually the one thing that will get Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.