Perhaps GB should add some things to Iran after withdrawing their staff.
The sort of things that cause increases in thermal activity.
“The sort of things that cause increases in thermal activity.”
There’s a type of behavior called “permission giving.” If a 90 year old woman robs a bank, then there will be a spat of elderly women robbing banks. If a lovelorn 13 year of girl writes a love note and kills herself, then there will be a spat of really young people writing love notes and killing themselves. The same holds true among nations. Germany used poison gas; so the allies used poison gas. In the next war, everybody had poison gas on standby, but nobody used it. That’s because nobody wanted to deal with the consequences, but they were ready and waiting “permission. “
Right now there’s a moral hold on using nuclear weapons. But once it’s broken, they will be used profligately. Pakistan and India might fight border skirmishes daily, but when one is pressed to the wall (by whatever means) and they use nuclear weapons, then look for those weapons to be used world-wide.
Pakistan and North Korea are being held back only by the undefined fear of what being the first to use such weapons might mean. In truth, probably a strongly worded letter from the President and sanctions from the UN. Once Pakistan and North Korea, and everybody developing those weapons, realize that there effectively isn’t any penalty, they will be used widely. Expect, for example, Syria to use their first weapon not on Israel, but on Syrian rebels. Does anybody doubt that Gadhafi wouldn’t have used nukes to save himself?
Personally, I wouldn’t even use the threat in jest, even as a private citizen; let alone “the bombing starts in five minutes.” The more the body politic speaks of using such force on Iran (or others) the more permission they will feel when they finally have the bomb.