Both men said the decision could lead to a nuclear arms race in Asia.
It would trigger a nuclear arms race in the most dangerous part of the world.
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In stark contrast, if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, a regional nuclear arms race will ensue immediately.
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Iran and Pakistan (now in a dangerous nuclear arms race with India) are recent customers.
We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.
It will engender it has already quietly engendered a nuclear arms race in the region.
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Just four years after the US used its nuclear weapons, it found itself in a nuclear arms race with the Soviets.
Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal, which it has reportedly fielded for four decades, has not led to a regional nuclear arms race.
And if Tehran gets the bomb, we might soon have a nuclear arms race in one of the world's most volatile regions.
Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal has never caused a regional nuclear arms race.
There is very much a real threat of a new arms race, and even more alarmingly, a nuclear arms race on the subcontinent.
The administration's support for the Arabs' quest for nuclear reactors makes clear that it is now willing to have a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race.
If they lose confidence in Washington's ability to protect them, the Perry report notes, they'll kick off a new nuclear arms race that will spread world-wide.
They say a nuclear arms race could be beginning in north-east Asia, which would be a convenient way to acknowledge North Korea's nuclear deterrent at last.
What I know is this: that if we see a nuclear arms race in a region as volatile as the Middle East, everybody will be in danger.
There is the geopolitical escalation in terms of potential nuclear arms race between China, Pakistan and India and at the same time, campaign finance investigations continuing in Washington.
The Iranian nuclear threat jeopardizes Israel, could spark a nuclear arms race in the region, and could provide a way for a non-state actor to get a nuclear weapon, Jones said.
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Presently, America and Russia meet a fifth of world uranium demand in the form of decommissioned nuclear weapons, taken from the stockpile amassed during the nuclear arms race of the cold war.
And Iran's Holocaust-denying president seems hellbent on acquiring a nuclear weapon that would not just threaten Israel's existence but terrify his Arab neighbours and provoke a nuclear arms race across the region.
An Israeli strike would prevent a regional nuclear arms race by freeing Arab states of the need to develop their own nuclear arsenals and so prove that a strong Israel enhances regional stability.
Better, he says, to concentrate on preventing a nuclear arms race across the region before it starts, while containing Iran by making it clear that it will suffer devastating consequences if it takes the next step towards acquiring nuclear weapons.
But allowing North Korea to slip away from the commitment to abandon nuclear weapons would set a bad precedent for international nonproliferation efforts and could trigger a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia a prospect that would alarm China too.
On top of that, Iran could speed up its nuclear ambitions, causing a "daunting and depressing scenario" of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt and Turkey trying to get a nuclear bomb, Shepperd says.
An angry China predicts that America's national missile defences (assuming they are built: another test was due on July 7th but a decision on deployment is not expected until later in the year) will touch off a new nuclear arms race.
Moreover, since Iran evidently aspired to become the hegemon of the Middle East, its drive for a nuclear capability could result as, according to the New York Times, no fewer than twenty-one governments in and around the region were warning in a quote grave and destructive nuclear arms race.
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The threat that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons technology presents is clear to Israel, it's clear to the United States and its allies, but it's also clear to the countries in the regions for whom the beginning of a nuclear arms race would have terrible and unpredictable effects on those countries.
He accused American of a litany of offenses - of destabilizing the Middle East by the war in Iraq, of provoking a new nuclear arms race, of making the organization for security and cooperation of Europe into a vulgar instrument of his own foreign policy and of greater distain for the principles of international law.
But I think not only the world, but the Iranian regime understands very clearly how determined we are to prevent not only a nuclear Iran but also a nuclear arms race in the region, and a violation of nonproliferation norms that would have implications around the world, including in the Asia Pacific region where we have similar problems with North Korea.
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It risks triggering a nuclear-arms race in the region, and the unraveling of the non-proliferation treaty.
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