From Pyongyang to Tehran

Corriere.it:
"The second option is nuclear proliferation that military intervention could only delay, the enlargement of today’s nuclear club of nine countries to twenty or more, and the consequent return to a less stable version of armed deterrence. This is the doctrine that at the time of the US-USSR stand-off was known as MAD, or Mutual Assured Destruction, and it would leave us at the mercy of too many potential lunatics. Kim Jong-Il has sounded the red alert."

Good oped column on the nuke proliferation crisis by Franco Venturini in Rome's Corriere Della Serra.