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The Bomb in Waiting
- Early in 2026, joint aerial campaigns left the Iranian plateau pocked with smoking craters.
- Whatever else they achieved, they ended an argument I have never found persuasive: that Western non-proliferation, with its tired vocabulary of sanctions and inspections, still had something left to say.
- For decades the international community nursed a comfortable fiction, that economic strangulation, leavened now and then by kinetic intervention, could freeze a sovereign state’s technological evolution in amber.
- It lies under the rubble of Natanz and Fordow now.
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