Finally, it is important to keep Iran's options for deploying nuclear-armed missiles in careful perspective. For all the present focus on Iran's potential nuclear missile threat, it is important to note that such a threat has critical limits. Even if Iran does eventually deploy nuclear-armed missiles, these are only clearly valuable as a deterrent threat and that deterrent value only exist up to the point where such weapons are actually employed. They could all too easily become a disaster for Iran if it ever used them.
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