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The emergence of such a future would present the world with a stark choice: either acquiesce to an Iran that possesses or could quickly assemble a nuclear device, or launch a preventive military attack designed to destroy much of the Iranian nuclear program.
An armed attack by the United States, Israel, or both on Iran’s nuclear facilities is another possibility.
But, despite these potential drawbacks, an armed attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will and should remain a distinct possibility given the enormous strategic costs of a nuclear-armed Iran.
A terrorist attack could remind Americans of their fundamental vulnerability.
A facility considered secure 20 years ago might now be vulnerable to a cyber attack that bypasses its security systems or confounds efforts to keep track of its nuclear material.
Because such an attack was entirely predictable, it may not derail the diplomatic process completely.
With two bilateral meetings – between the two countries’ foreign secretaries, and then between Modi and Sharif – scheduled to take place this month, we will not have to wait long to find out how much political damage the attack has caused.
Today, the threat of terrorist attack causes people to re-examine human rights and legal standards.
Serious fighting only broke out after supporters of Mubarak began to attack the crowds.
Rumsfeld's juvenile attack on "old Europe" no doubt helped bring millions into the streets.
Since these missiles could in theory attack Turkish aircraft in Turkish airspace, the Turks in response have implied that their deployment might be a casus belli.
This month, a number of tech firms, including Microsoft and Facebook, declared that they will not assist any government in conducting offensive cyberwarfare operations, and that they will defend unconditionally any countries or individuals targeted by a cyber attack.
Does that really include a cyber attack against North Korea or Iran to preempt a nuclear event?
Fighter bombers and attack helicopters would be employed to intercept any counter-attacks against the flanks of the advancing columns, and to break up blocking forces.
Whatever else happens, the war will bring an all-out attack against the executioners and torturers of Iraq's peoples.
It was the most dignified and appropriate possible response to a terrorist attack, a firm demonstration of unity that transcended internal divisions.
In the case of the Barcelona attack, the Moroccan imam Abdelbaki Es Satty, who died in an explosion at the terror cell’s bomb-making factory, is thought have been responsible for radicalizing the young attackers.
The recent knife attack in Finland, carried out by a Moroccan teen, underscores the reality that a country need not play a major role in the coalition against ISIS in Syria and Iraq to become a target; it is enough to be an open European society.
Controlling Cyber ConflictLAS VEGAS – When cyber-security professionals were polled recently at their annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 60% said they expected the United States to suffer a successful attack against its critical infrastructure in the next two years.
Given the current popular mood – soured by recent terrorist attacks, from the murder of 86 people in a truck attack in Nice in July to the savage slaughter of a priest in Normandy later that month – Sarkozy’s approach may just work.
I now reiterate the promise that I made after that attack.
It is debatable whether governments should ever frighten their citizens by painting the horror scenario of "inevitable" attack.
Israel belatedly announced, but did not carry out, a two-day cessation in bombing Lebanon, responding to the global condemnation of an air attack on the Lebanese village of Qana, where 57 civilians were killed and where 106 died from the same cause 10 years ago.
The six men accused of the bus attack have been arrested and charged with murder, and the government has ordered an inquiry into how rape cases are handled.
Responding to the nerve-agent attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the placid market town of Salisbury, England, May projected strength – including to her fellow European leaders – by demanding that the Kremlin answer for the crime.
Beneath the surface, the international response to the Salisbury attack reveals alarming cracks in the UK’s position on the world stage.
But Putin may also have anticipated the public outrage over the attack on the Skripals and calculated that EU member states with pro-Russian governments – namely, Hungary, Greece, and, soon, Italy – would veto any strong EU response.
A Pakistani-sponsored jihadi attack on India’s Parliament in December 2001 nearly provoked all-out war.
The blanket suspicion that was widely seen as falling on all Muslims after every terrorist attack was also strongly resented.
But since the start of the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015, Kohl’s vision of Europe has been under attack.
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