“All the Arab countries can just as easily think up scenarios where Israel drops a nuclear bomb on them.

Therefore, part of the effort to minimize concerns about such scary scenarios everywhere might be to try to ban nuclear weapons everywhere in the world — including the USA and Israel.”

“Chemical and biological weapons are banned. But if someone suggests that nuclear weapons likewise be banned, there are always people who will pop up and ridicule the suggestion as naive and impossible.”

… and chemical weapons are still made, deployed, and used by various nations – Iran among them. Prohibtions against various tactics and weapons are broken routinely. (by our current enemies, I might add).

Such rules in warfare only exist because two sides feel they can win without using the banned weapon or tactic, and agreeing to a rule takes care of the worry that said weapon or tactic would be used against them. This completely breaks down in the context of nuclear weapons, since such weapons are often specifically developed and deployed for scenarios where a nation simply cannot win by conventional means.

The word “fool” comes to mind. Anyone who can look at this problem and honestly talk about Iranian and middle eastern fears about being nuked by Isreal or the US is, frankly, out of their freakin’ mind.

I suppose someone breaking into my house with a gun to rape my wife and kids is also worried about being shot… but that doesn’t mean that a gun ban would compel them to give up on breking into my house for nefarious purposes. Neither Iran nor the other usual arab suspects have given up on their goal of destroying Israel simply for the sake of destroying Israel; stop being ethically and morally obtuse.