The point is not to "satisfy" Iran, but to get closer to an end goal of global disarmament. (If you don't agree that this is the end goal, then I wonder if you're trying to have it both ways by saying that the A-Bomb is not a Good Thing and yet should be kept around.)
The only end point of disarmament that would really ensure a lasting non-nuclear world would be the destruction of the knowledge of how to build a nuclear device at all. Since that seems to me not simply impractical but logically impossible at this stage then it hardly seems worth arguing about; it's a bit like saying that having discovered the New World the Europeans should have pretended that they didn't know it was there. The A-Bomb is "going to be around" forever whether I or you or anyone else likes it or not. Its existence is not a matter for worthwhile dispute; what is is whether we can create a situation where the likelihood of its use is kept to an absolute minimum.
by Alan Allport on April 25, 2006 at 2:38 PM