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What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like — LessWrong

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For the last twenty years or so, Iran has been covertly developing nuclear weapons. Iran is a country with a very low opinion of Israel and is generally diplomatically opposed to its existence. Their supreme leader has a habit of saying things like "Israel is a cancerous tumor of a state" that should be "removed from the region". Because of these and other reasons, Israel has assessed, however accurately, that if Iran successfully develops nuclear weapons, it stands a not-insignificant chance of using them against Israel. Israel's response to this problem has been multi-pronged. Making defense systems that could potentially defeat Iranian nuclear weapons is an important component of their strategy. The country has developed a sophisticated array of missile interception systems like the Iron Dome. Some people even suggest that these systems would be effective against much of the incoming rain of hellfire from an Iranian nuclear state. But Israel's current evaluation of the "nuclear defe

x What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2022 Slowing Down AI AI Governance AI World Optimization Frontpage 694 What an actually pessimistic containment strategy looks like by lc 5th Apr 2022 7 min read 138 694 Israel as a nation state has an ongoing national security issue involving Iran. For the last twenty years or so, Iran has been covertly developing nuclear weapons. Iran is a country with a very low opinion of Israel and is generally diplomatically opposed to its existence. Their supreme leader has a habit of saying things like "Israel

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