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Iran and nuclear pride disaster after 69 years

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It's been 53 years since Bertrand Russell published his book, titled "Has Man a Future?" In the book, Russell urged the  United States , Britain , and the  Soviet Union  to immediately destroy their nuclear weapons, and warned against other nation's ambitions to build such weapons. As Russell and many other theorists had predicted, production of such weapons - thermonuclear weapons are probably capable of destroying the whole human culture and even the human race - didn't remain limited to those mentioned countries. Today, at least nine countries own nuclear weapons. Abdul Qadeer Khan's case in  Pakistan  and  North Korea 's irresponsible government prove the fact that keeping the secrets of nuclear bomb production technology from non-nuclear nations is practically impossible. We should never forget that the Manhattan Project, aimed at building the first atomic bomb, was nothing but a rivalry with Nazi Germany that was suspected of pursuing a