This is the end of any hope. Iran will now do everything in its power to get one. And it has all the skills it needs.
Refinement keeps getting easier.
They've been doing anything in their power to get nuclear weapons for decades! This isn't some new trend that just occurred to them last week.
Terminator Skynet rules, they just delayed it.
This is just another square in my world war three bingo board. Sits pretty close to breaking the nuclear taboo square.
A country doesn't acquire nukes to use them. They acquire them to freeze specific layers of conflict. Actually using them among peers invites annihilation.
Annihilation, that would make a good square on the bingo board
Statistics says even if it’s true, unintended use probability sky rockets risking nuclear winter.
It turns out (and I didn't realize this until I looked back into it just a few years ago) that the 70s/80s concept of nuclear winter is discredited and believed not to be something that would arise from a global thermonuclear holocaust.