In my just-published book “The Preventive State,” I make the following case for a preemptive military strike against Iran’s nascent nuclear arsenal:

“If [diplomacy] fails and if it becomes likely that Iran is about to cross the threshold into making a deliverable nuclear weapon, the pressure on Israel to act, with or without the assistance and/or approval of the United States, will increase considerably . . .

“No democracy can afford to wait until such a threat against its civilian population is imminent. Both Israel and the United States should have the right under international law to protect their civilians and soldier from a threatened nuclear holocaust, and that right must include — if that is the only realistic option — preemptive military action of the sort taken by Israel against the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, especially if such action can again be taken without an unreasonable number of civilian casualties.”

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