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Well, you could get into an argument as to whether some action or another is moral. I think for the purpose of practicality it's not so much that some historical nastiness occurred, rather that we do what we can - to prevent such a recurrence in the future. That to me, seems far, far more useful than reparations nonsense, which leads to worrying about whether 10 years at Dachau is worth 4$ on the hour or 5$ and implies that abject suffering and degeneracy is simply an "overhead" cost.

While conservative elements of the Israeli body politic are extraordinarily concerned about Iran.

Iran simply is defiant, 5 nations in Iran's region already have nuclear weapons, there is a second arms race, and that does suck, but if we wanted to be serious about counter-proliferation we needed to be doing so consistently 25 years ago. Today it is more than a little late, so US (not Israeli) economic interests, oil/gas price stability specifically, must take precedence over others concerns.

SCUD - Type 3 missiles (the most common type) can carry small payloads inaccurately up to 500-800 nautical miles. These missiles could easily include a small "gun-type" Hiroshima style weapon of modern design.

Largely the states in the "lower tier" were not acquiring nuclear weapons for reasons all that far removed from simple Bourgeois impulse ( simply to know they have one ), like a new Bentley or Porsche only with more gamma ray output & generally not from a warranted military viewpoint.