Mr Dagan warns that an attack on Iran would be “stupid” and would trigger a regional war, “and in that case you would have given Iran the best possible reason to continue the nuclear programme.

达甘将军警告说向伊朗发起攻击并非明智之举，很可能会导致地区战争，“如此一来，你将会为伊朗提供一个最好的理由去继续推行核计划。”

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She said the nuclear deal will trigger an expansion of their ties.

她说，这项核协定将推动两国关系扩大。

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In the 1960s John Kennedy fretted that without a test ban and other hurdles, eventually a score of countries could have their finger on a nuclear trigger.

在60年代，约翰·肯尼迪苦恼于没有试验禁令和其他障碍，最终一部分国家可以将他们的手指放在核按钮上。

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"I firmly believe it is in Iran's interest not to develop nuclear weapons, because it would trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and be profoundly destabilizing in all sorts of ways."

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Officials said that they saw little need to hurry what was a sensitive and complex process because there was a de facto command authority in place, with the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in charge of the nuclear trigger.

ECONOMIST: Controlling the nuclear decision

Mr. SIEGFRIED HECKER (Former Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory): The bottom line of the Non-Proliferation Treaty--in fact, of the proliferation world--I think, could be simply stated by the more fingers on the nuclear trigger, the more dangerous a world it is for everyone.

NPR: Nuclear Weapons Gain Importance for Regional Powers

Fires at nuclear facilities are often the trigger for nuclear catastrophes.

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