Did you ever wonder why some former CIA say all the OTHER agents were idiots EXCEPT them? I say this one was disgruntled and his opinion isnt worth the time of day.
I still don't understand why so many people are so worried about Iraq (given that it's China that has thermonuclear weapons and ICBMs). Even if Iraq has managed to cobble together a nuclear warhead, it has no missiles capable of reaching the U.S. And, as you say, if Saddam were foolish enough to use a nuclear weapon against Israel, the Israeli counterattack would make his country "glow like the Blob." In the Gulf War we told Saddam that we'd use nuclear weapons if he used poison gas or biological weapons against us or Israel. And he didn't. His SCUDS were armed with conventional warheads. He may be a tyrant, but he's not a stupid one.
Works for me.
I also get tired of those who say "they don't have a delivery system". They don't need long-range missiles to deliver nuclear weapons. They simply need a typical freighter ship or large truck. Tel Aviv is on the coast as is New York, Seattle, LA and San Francisco. You can hope there is some magic detection system that can detect these devices buried deep in a giant cargo ship or oil tanker but that is hugely unlikely. I'd bet a few million gallons of crud oil makes a pretty good radiation absorber especially below the water line… If these detectors are so sensitive then the Russians would know were all our nuclear submarines are, they would be easy to track. They don't, it isn't.
It has always been known that nuclear weapons were at some point going to be in the hands of petty dictators and suicidal tyrants. The question was always when. Why is it so hard to believe that that time has finally arrived? There is nothing more in this world that would make these people more full of themselves and "bold" than having these weapons. Look at what they have done, at what there doing and what their end goal is.