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Treat nuclear threats as a criminal act

North Korea's threat to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the US need not be taken seriously - yet. But it has the bomb (12, by reliable estimate) and ballistic missiles, and it will take only a few years to design a nuclear warhead and a re-entry heat shield for the drop on Hollywood. By then Iran will have the bomb, as will Saudi Arabia (bought off-the-peg from Pakistan), and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will be well advanced in obtaining the nuclear weapons its leaders have always wanted. We will, by this time, feel very nostalgic for the good old days of the Cold War.

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