Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2025: Tilting at nuclear Armageddon

Posted: 4th March 2026

Beyond Nuclear condemned the US/Israel attacks on Iran as provocative and unnecessary when a nuclear deal was already close. But fear that Iran might get the bomb was of course a false premise. And President Trump’s pursuit of space as an area of “dominance” and “superiority” threatens to start an arms race in space and marks a departure from prior efforts to reserve it as an area for cooperation not competition, writes Ghassan Shahrour. 

Tilting at nuclear Armageddon

The attacks by the US and Israel on Iran and the assassination of the country’s clerical leader are reckless and provocative and risk sparking a wider - and potentially even a nuclear - war in the region. The decision by the US to abandon nuclear negotiations with Iran that were reportedly going well and instead use the unfounded threat that Iran could develop nuclear weapons as a pretext for the attacks, is another echo of past such illegal invasions, most reminiscent of the Iraq war, conducted on a similar false premise. READ MORE

Ominous rhetoric risks peace

Trump’s rhetoric is inflammatory, but his actions are downright dangerous. What he is saying about space should alarm everyone, writes Ghassan Shahrour. A White House Executive Order announces “Ensuring American Space Superiority” but what “superiority” actually means is ominous, signaling ”a shift from cooperative security to strategic competition—with profound consequences for global human security.” READ MORE

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