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Is It Moral to Kill Iran's Nuclear Scientists?
(Telegraph-UK) Michael Burleigh - The Israelis believe that anyone who knowingly participates in developing weapons of mass destruction or terrorism should be aware that these are not risk-free activities. Iranian scientists know full well that electronic switches are used in nuclear triggers, and that enriching uranium beyond a certain percentage is not for the production of medical isotopes. And they accept the considerable financial rewards involved. If there are questions about the morality of killing such men, there are questions about the morality of their work in the first place. In 1943 and 1944 the RAF and USAF carried out repeated strikes on the German V-2 rocket launch site at Peenemunde. They were not unduly concerned whether scientists and engineers were killed too, provided the V-2s ceased raining down on London. Today's Iranian physicists work for a regime that has explicitly threatened Israel (and by implication many ambient Palestinians) with a nuclear weapon. I shall not shed any tears whenever one of these scientists encounters the unforgiving men on motorbikes.