The myth of a nuclear domino effect creates an excuse for other Middle Eastern countries -- expecting that their neighbors will be nuclear powers -- to acquire nuclear weapons themselves.

核武器的多米诺效应神话为其他中东国家通过希望邻国成为核国家为自己开发核武器创造了借口。

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We talked about the nuclear weapons themselves.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Senator Kyl on nuclear deterrence

It should now be clear that a failure to modernize our nuclear weapons complex and the weapons themselves, including the delivery systems, not only threatens the continuing reliability and credibility of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, it threatens the basic tenets of our national security strategy since the end of the Cold War.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Senator Kyl on nuclear deterrence

The idea that nuclear weapons in and of themselves deter such invasions is wrong, as Israel found in the Yom Kippur war.

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