Good day and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Tuesday, February 6th,

2024. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison. The world is watching the latest negotiations in the Israel-Hamas war

amid ongoing attacks by the Houthis and Hezbollah.

In the meantime, we should not miss this headline from the Jerusalem Post,

Iran closer than ever to weaponizing uranium, building nuclear bomb.

The Institute for Science and International Security is sounding the alarm and has upgraded

its threat level to extreme danger, the highest of its six ratings, for the first time since

the group began following the Iranian nuclear program in the 1990s. They warned that the country

could make enough highly enriched uranium to fashion a nuclear explosive in a week and could build and deliver a weapon in about six months.

Why would Iran choose to do so?

And why is this such an extreme danger to the world?

At first glance, today's news seems less than alarming on the assumption that Iran

knows a nuclear attack on Israel or the U.S. would lead to a swift and devastating nuclear

retaliation against their country. But this goes both ways. A nuclear-armed Iran would likely

feel protected from aggression by its enemies and thus emboldened to

escalate its proxy war on Israel and the West. It would pose an immediate threat to countries

without nuclear weapons such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia and would probably incite them to seek

such weapons further heightening tensions in the region. Military action against Iran,

likely from Israel, to prevent its acquisition of nuclear weapons would likely escalate the

ongoing regional conflict. And there's always the chance of a catastrophic, if not apocalyptic,

nuclear accidents. But there's one other crucial factor we dare not overlook.

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