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World leaders must curb nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and beyond
EXPERT COMMENT
The nuclear threat is resurgent – more must be done to avert the havoc of escalation.
A month after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, a junior Israeli government minister, Amihai Eliyahu, suggested that an atomic bomb could be dropped on Gaza.
Almost all analysts and certainly all governments took his remarks as an empty gesture aimed at a specific domestic audience – the minister later said his comments in the radio interview were metaphorical, and he was suspended from the government.
Behind the headlines and resulting fury, however, is a long-held common understanding that Israel has an undeclared nuclear weapons capability, and that Iran is closer to crossing the nuclear weapons threshold.
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Original article link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/05/world-leaders-must-curb-nuclear-proliferation-middle-east-and-beyond
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