plawolf
Lieutenant General
‘Giving’ nukes only works in one of two ways.
One you give/accidentally-on-purpose-allow the country to obtain the tech and raw materials to make their own nukes (Israel, NK, Pakistan).
Two is you formally extend your own nuclear umbrella over them and publicly declare that any nuclear attack on them will be treated as a nuclear attack on you and you will respond accordingly with your own nukes (NATO, Japan, Warsaw Pack).
Option one is a no go right now.
Just sending a few of your own nukes across and letting someone else slap their own flag on it won’t work. All it will take is for the likely target of the nukes in question to declare that any nuclear attack by that country/province will be considered as a nuclear first strike by you to make those nukes worse than useless. This is why America can’t get away with gifting nukes to Taiwan or Japan, and in the same way, Russia can’t gift Iran nukes and expect to not suffer consequences if Iran uses them.
The only way to protect Iran from nuclear attack is if one of the existing nuclear powers puts them under their own nuclear umbrella, and frankly no one cares about Iran remotely enough to do that.
Iran’s best deterrence against nuclear attack by Israel or America would be to threaten to detonate dirty bombs in their cities if Iran is nuked.
One you give/accidentally-on-purpose-allow the country to obtain the tech and raw materials to make their own nukes (Israel, NK, Pakistan).
Two is you formally extend your own nuclear umbrella over them and publicly declare that any nuclear attack on them will be treated as a nuclear attack on you and you will respond accordingly with your own nukes (NATO, Japan, Warsaw Pack).
Option one is a no go right now.
Just sending a few of your own nukes across and letting someone else slap their own flag on it won’t work. All it will take is for the likely target of the nukes in question to declare that any nuclear attack by that country/province will be considered as a nuclear first strike by you to make those nukes worse than useless. This is why America can’t get away with gifting nukes to Taiwan or Japan, and in the same way, Russia can’t gift Iran nukes and expect to not suffer consequences if Iran uses them.
The only way to protect Iran from nuclear attack is if one of the existing nuclear powers puts them under their own nuclear umbrella, and frankly no one cares about Iran remotely enough to do that.
Iran’s best deterrence against nuclear attack by Israel or America would be to threaten to detonate dirty bombs in their cities if Iran is nuked.
