According to John Bolton's remark Israel has one day left to destroy the Bushehr's nuclear reactor, else once rods are loaded the whole complex would become too dangerous to destroy later. It also seems that Russia has made an agreement with the US in that Russian would guaranty that the spent fuel would be taken by Russia so that it could not be used by Iran for a plutonium-based nuclear bomb.But why would Israel destroy the Bushehr nuclear reactor, or for that matter all the other Iranian nuclear sites when everyone assumes that Israel has nuclear weapons? After all, ever since the American containment policy was formulated by George F. Kennan in his Long Telegram in 1946 it remained in effect for forty five years even with the USSR exploding its own atom bomb in 1949. The doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) worked well. Neither the US nor the Soviet Union wished to be annihilated and therefore they reached a stable equilibrium. So Israel could apply the same...(Read Full Post)