Author’s premise is flawed and amounts to an exercise in distraction and misdirection. None of the other nuclear countries he mentions have openly expressed the desire to obliterate other nations either as Iran has.
“creating a real risk of a sea-based exchange of nuclear weapons.”
Yeah, anyone who writes stuff like this doesn’t have a clue about what the dangers are. The dangers of a country possessing nuclear weapons is not that it might use them, because most countries are not stupid enough to use them and ensure their own destruction. The danger is that, by having nuclear weapons, they are free to bully all of their neighbors who do not have nuclear weapons with virtual impunity.
Maybe the three should take out Iran.
None of the others have threatened nuclear war. Iran has, repeatedly. Not threatened, promised.
The Pakistanis call their nukes “the Islamic bomb” and offer them freely to other Sunnis. The right thing to do is for the USA to eliminate those nukes and break up Pakistan — giving the leftist Balochis to Iran (to cause trouble there — also note that Baluchistan is the eastern part of the Baloch people (who are Irani), and the western part live in the Irani province of Sistan-e-Baloch) and giving the Pathan NWGP to Afghanistan, reducing Pakistan to just west Punjab and Sindh (the two of whom hate each other) with the Muhajirs to spice things up