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Will the U.S. bomb Iran over a nuclear weapons program that doesn’t exist?

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Iran 's nuclear weapons program is like Schrödinger 's cat: It both does and doesn't exist at the same time.

Despite the high stakes of nuclear proliferation, the issue isn't well understood by the public.

U.S. policy since the Bush administration has been to go to war to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon bomb.

Some aspects of U.S. policy today are reminiscent of the first Trump administration, others are an echo of the Bush administration.

The National Security Presidential Memorandum accuses Iran of supporting Al Qaeda and trying "to embed sleeper cells in the Homeland" for "terrorist activity" These are vague, dubious accusations, and almost exactly the same ones lobbed at Iraq during the buildup to the 2003 war.

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