First you have to obliterate their scientists...so they can't create bombs to use against you. That leaves you in top dog pole position. Just be sure you hit em fast before they hire another scientist.

Let the war begin!

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The USA never attacks and invades a nuclear-equipped nation. North Korea and Iran both know that.

If M.A.D. was good enough for the USA and the USSR, then why not Israel and Iran? We were told time and time again that M.A.D. was justified to assure peace.

It would be much more effective to bomb thier universities and burn their books. I think it's possible that in any population you may have a number of people that could be taught the necessary information to allow their skills to complete tasks. Perhaps nuclear scientist is a "hot" carreer in Iran with more applicants than available positions. By the way, in the U.S. the "hot" carreers were in the "financial manipulation" fields.

Cy Click, I think you have a point. The only way to prevent other countries having nuclear weapons is to bomb the universities and burn the books. Just like any other weapon invented Iran and a host of other countries will acquire the atomic bomb no matter what the USA does.

Whether they will use it will depend on what they learn in history in these universities and books. Some weapons like gas were not used in WW2 because WWW1 show it was harmful to both sides. I suspect the fact that the Atomic Bomb has not been used foe sixty years proves that those with these weapons have learn the same lesion. Atomic Bombs harm both sides and are too dangerous to use in war.
This applies even to Israel. It is such a small country that two bombs could destroy it. Destroying Iran will be much harder and if if it did Israel will have even more enemies in the arab world.