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To: michael97123 who wrote (182815)	3/3/2006 1:41:37 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iran and Israel are enemies of long standing. When your enemy has nukes, you are motivated to aquire them. It's the simple, "live by the sword, die by the sword" principle. I'm sure all the Arab states surrounding Israel that oppose it would also love to have them. At some point in the future, with the direction Bush has set of encouraging proliferation, they probably will. They certainly have the revenue to buy them outright. 200 is the middle estimate of the nukes Israel has, arrived at in the late eighties. If they've continued to enrich uranium and produce weapons, they could easily have 400 today. Since their entire program is secret, and they also haven't signed the NPT treaty, the extent of their true program is unknown. fas.org