Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Those countries now no longer have to build nuclear weapons capabilities to counter the Iranians.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Now, we've also restored our credibility.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
We don't bluff.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
We said Iran doesn't develop nuclear weapons.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They won't.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And now it's the Japanese who have, as Scott rightly pointed out, they do have reprocessing and plutonium capabilities.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The Taiwanese who used to have a military nuclear weapons program and gave it up, and the South Koreans who agree to our gold standard,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
of zero enrichment, zero reprocessing, those three countries can now say, okay, we rely on the United States, on your word, on your power, and on your ability to actually turn words into action.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
We don't need nuclear weapons.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
So I say, if successful, big F, big F, if successful, then it's going to be a significant...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
guard against the potential of greater nuclear proliferation, and we will have less nuclear weapons powers than we otherwise would have.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
After the show, when we're not recording.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Can I respond to a couple of things here?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Just really quickly, I'll try to do it quickly.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
First of all, you know, the notion that Iran is in full compliance with the NPT is just not the case.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The International Atomic Energy Agency has made it clear in report after report after report that Iran is in violation of its obligations under the
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
protocols of the IAEA under the request that the IAEA have made and under the NPT.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
So they are a serial violator of the NPT, unlike all these other countries we've been talking about that are our allies.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Second is this quote, Iran is not attacking Israel.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That's quite an amazing quote, which kind of ignores, I think, 50, 60 years of Iranian attacks against Israel, including suicide bombings and terror.