Nearly seven months into the war with Iran, Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly to say that he now faces a “big decision.” He presented it in stark terms: either reach an agreement that allows Iran to rebuild, or dramatically escalate the war against the Islamic Republic.
That's one possible scenario but it will be a dangerous breakthrough, as argued in the article "the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon since 1945 would break a taboo that has endured for more than eight decades. That could weaken the broader international restraint surrounding nuclear weapons at precisely the moment Russia has repeatedly used nuclear threats in connection with its war in Ukraine and has revised its doctrine in ways that experts say lower the threshold for their use.".
That's one possible scenario but it will be a dangerous breakthrough, as argued in the article "the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon since 1945 would break a taboo that has endured for more than eight decades. That could weaken the broader international restraint surrounding nuclear weapons at precisely the moment Russia has repeatedly used nuclear threats in connection with its war in Ukraine and has revised its doctrine in ways that experts say lower the threshold for their use.".