The threats against the U.S. are building. The country could be in danger.
And a U.S. senator makes a warning about a serious nuclear threat from this American enemy.
Senator Angus King appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition and dropped some uncomfortable realities about the limits of military force against Iran.
The independent senator from Maine laid out a sobering assessment. Even after heavy strikes that left Iranian nuclear sites in ruins, the regime’s deadly program isn’t finished. King pointed directly to the challenge of dealing with deeply buried nuclear material.
“Well, the question is, how are they going to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon? The nuclear material that’s there — there are two pieces of this: The nuclear material that’s there, that we know of, is buried under I don’t know how many feet of rubble,” King stated.
“Getting that out is either — there [are] only two ways: One is diplomacy, one is agreement with the Iranian government to give up that material. The other is troops. You can’t do it from the air. You can’t do it by bombing. And so, that’s one of the pieces of this that we’ve got to consider.”
He didn’t stop there. King zeroed in on the human element that no amount of ordnance can erase:
“And the other piece is — and I’ve been learning this for years — you can’t bomb knowledge. And if there are people in Iran, they’re scientists and engineers that have been working on this problem for years, the question is, how do you, ultimately, prevent them from racing toward a bomb, which this whole war that we’ve been in may provoke them to do?”
Decades of expertise live inside the minds of Iranian specialists. Destroy buildings, collapse tunnels, and scatter equipment, but the know-how survives.
Worse, King warned that the ongoing fighting itself could push those scientists to work faster, turning a contained threat into an emergency.
He called for a realistic path forward centered on smart diplomacy rather than perpetual airstrikes.
“So, I think the answer has to be some kind of diplomatic solution. And it would make me feel better if our negotiators were people that had some expertise in nuclear matters, because I think there could be a deal to be had,” King said.
“But we’ve got to have people on our side that know what’s being offered and what the implications are.”
America’s leaders must put U.S. security and prosperity first.
That means avoiding open-ended wars that enrich defense contractors while ordinary families pay at the pump.
