(Washington Times) Editorial - "If Iran goes nuclear, you worry that Hizballah goes nuclear," said Paul Leventhal, president of the Nuclear Control Institute. An often-overlooked danger of Iranian possession of nuclear weapons would be that the regime could pass along nuclear weapons to Hizballah or other terrorist organizations that it supports. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that Hizballah could try to smuggle a crude nuclear device into the hold of a ship or a truck and deliver it to a highly populated Israeli city. According to Leventhal, if such a device functioned properly, it could result in an explosion roughly equivalent to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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