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Antineutrino Detection Is About To Change the Game In Nuclear Verification (thebulletin.org)
Lasrick writes: There may be a new option for the detection of illicit nuclear weapons programs worldwide: Antineutrino detection is an existing technology that, if political and diplomatic hurdles are overcome, could be put in place before the 10-year ban on Iranian enrichment R&D is lifted. Difficult to evade, antineutrino detection technology could allow the international community to reliably monitor a country's nuclear activities in real-time, potentially without setting foot in the country. Similar in cost and technological scale to the space-borne reconnaissance methods governments use for detection today, antineutrino detection could not only help identify undeclared nuclear reactors, but could monitor nuclear facilities and detonations throughout the Middle East and beyond.
And we'll learn that they've been managing them responsibly. This is in stark contrast to how any other government near them would behave, particularly the one a few countries to the east of them.
Not that this revelation will stop savages from stabbing Israeli women and children, but it can't hurt.
When a country has nuclear weapons, the US stops meddling in its internal affairs and begins to treat it as an equal.
So your thinking is that the USSR/Russia, UK, US, and China didn't/don't meddle with each other?
You think India, Pakistan, and China (with a little help from North Korea) will be an "island of stability" and peace, and a lack of meddling? Has North Korea grown more peaceful since obtaining nuclear weapons? (Maybe they'll demonstrate their commitment to peace the next time they launch missiles OVER Japan.)
You want to be "equal" with North Korea, a country that has starved millions of its people that it could have fed, did didn't, diverting food aid to the military? (A minor slice of the military budget would have fed them as well.) A country that puts three generations of a family in prison camps that kill large percentages of their inmates put there for such crimes as telling a joke about the Glorious Leader, or maybe not cheering enthusiastically enough for the increase in chocolate ration from 25g to 15g?
You think it was good to be "equal" with Stalin's Soviet Union, that only a few years previously killed 7,000,000 Ukrainians by confiscating their food and starving them to death for not being enthusiastic about the Soviet government? The Soviet Union killed far more people than Nazi Germany (after helping the Nazis invade Poland, and prepare for war against the rest of Europe). The Soviet government that spread its tentacles across the world, even controlling many in the US?
You want to be "equal" with Iran, an genocidal genuine theocracy* that wants to be the leader of the Islamic world as a competitor to al Qaeda, has missiles that will reach Europe now, and warhead designs just waiting for fissionable material? A country that makes no secret about its genocidal desires against Israel, and longs to destroy your own country even while it fosters the cult of the suicide bomber?
Might I suggest you may have a pathological desire for "equality" and probably a warped view of the US?
Might I suggest you watch this some time? What do you want to be equal to?
*Not the rhetorical or pretend kind that some people want to claim about the US
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
And Iran would still have it's democratically elected leader instead of enduring the Shah for 38 years.
You're mistaken. Iran had no democracy when the Shah was restored to power. The Prime Minister had dissolved parliament, faked an election, and was ruling by decree. The Prime Minister also refused the traditional check on the power of a PM in a constitutional monarchy, the right of the monarch to dismiss the Prime Minister. No, you are quite mistaken. Iran's government was overthrown before the counter-coup that restore the Shah to power, and he reconstituted the government.
The Mullahs have been far more brutal than the Shah was. You should factor both of these factors into your thinking.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell