CarolC, North Korea has used "nuclear blackmail" for decades, done so quite succesfully. Now tell me was their nuclear weapons programme secret? They first got a reactor of the type that could be used to produce weapons grade material, then they developed the missiles to deliver the weapon, then they conducted a test.

How many ticks along that same road has Iran travelled CarolC?

Here's another one for you, was Israel's nuclear programme secret? If so according to you it is harmless ("the fact that,...., they are doing so in secret is proof that they are not playing nuclear blackmail, because nuclear blackmail is when people make threats to use nuclear weapons against other countries if those other countries don't comply with their wishes.") Has Israel ever threatened anyone with nuclear attack? Like India and Pakistan, Israel as a non-signatory of the NPT is perfectly entitled to have a nuclear energy programme and nuclear weapons as they are under no obligation to abide by the terms and conditions of a Treaty they are not party to.

When did Hiroshima and Nagasaki cease to be cities CarolC? Today they appear to be thriving, bustling communities. Two nuclear devices CarolC, one smuggled into Tel Aviv, the other smuggled into Haifa would destroy Israel. Tell me why that is impossible. The organisations and their paymasters to whom you seem to give your unstinting support have never shown any reluctance in deliberately targetting civilian centres of population. Why should the leopard change its spots now. By the bye, the air and water in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is respectively perfectly breathable and drinkable.

Hezbollah, Hamas and Fatah, and their Arab and Iranian paymasters, have only ever been interested in keeping the "Palestinian People" in misery and poverty in order that they may be used as pawns.

The suicide bombers that Saddam used to sponsor did it for instant cash for the sole benefit of their immediate family. What has been the instances of suicide bombings inside Israel since the fall of Saddam in March 2003 CarolC? What has been the instances of suicide bombings inside Israel since the wall was constructed?