The American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will have consequences for rogue states elsewhere. They have now been put on notice that if they try to acquire a nuclear bomb, they should expect to have their program destroyed by the Americans. More on this salutary lesson can be found here: “Bigger Than Just Iran,” by Douglas J. Feith and Dore Feith, Washington Free Beacon, June 28, 2025:
The danger of nuclear war in the world just diminished drastically. Americans are safer now than they were. America has a vital interest in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. By striking Iran, President Trump showed the resolve to use force to uphold that interest. The strategic significance of the blow extends far beyond Iran.
This was the first time the United States used a military attack to stop a country from acquiring a nuclear bomb. In the past, it had opposed nuclear proliferation through diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, and multilateral agreements. Those means have their merits but also their limitations. To be effective against rogue regimes, they have to be backed by power. President Trump has now made clear that America has that power and will use it to serve its nonproliferation purposes. Many U.S. presidents threatened military force to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, but until now those threats were of doubtful credibility.
This was not, however, the first time Israel used its military against an enemy’s nuclear program. The history is noteworthy. Israel sent its air force to hit Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 and to hit Syria’s nuclear facility in 2007. No major retaliation, let alone a new war, resulted, and neither Iraq nor Syria rebuilt the damaged facilities. Both decided it was not worthwhile, given Israel’s determination to prevent any such program from succeeding.
We tend to forget the international outrage elicited by the IDF’s bombing of both the Osirak reactor in 1981 and of the Syrian nuclear facility at Al-Kabir 2007, but no one, nowadays, thinks either of those attacks was anything other than exactly the right move, that made the world safer.
The United States has demonstrated both the will, and the ability, to wreak destruction on a very elaborate nuclear program, with many components across the vast land of Iran, and some of them in the deep-delved earth — the uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, for example, sits under 300 feet of granite. Yet the Americans managed, using a dozen 30,000-pound bombs, the “bunker busters” that only the American military possesses, to cause “severe damage” and perhaps — the final judgement has not yet been made — to “totally obliterate” it.
By wreaking so much damage on Iran’s nuclear program, from which it will not soon recover — and if it does continue such work, President Trump has promised another attack will take care of that one, and the one after as well — the Americans have shown that they will continue to serve as the chief enforcers of non-proliferation in the world. Rogue states will not now be willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a nuclear program that will almost certainly be destroyed in time by the most powerful army in the world. The Americans have made not just themselves, and the Israelis, but the entire world much safer because of Operation Midnight Hammer.
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