Iran, Israel and the Constant Threat of Nuclear War

War, more war, and fear of an even wider war or possibly a World War III.

All that dominates and roils our political debate, news reports and social media discourse.

First, there’s the actual war. It began with Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran’s nuclear weapons project and Iran’s bombarding Israeli cities to kill and maim civilians.

Then there’s more war with the decision by President Trump to have America’s military step in to help end Tehran’s atom bomb ambitions by attacking three Iranian nuclear sites Saturday.

That combined air and naval campaign included dropping bunker-busting bombs on an Iranian atomic facility buried deep in the base of a mountain. So deep that the Israelis didn’t have a weapon capable of destroying it. That fact meant only U.S. military might could deliver a potential knockout blow to the ayatollahs’ nuclear ambitions.

Trump late Saturday night declared the strike a “spectacular military success.”