Test paragraph 10

The nuclear proliferation dimension of this war deserves emphasis. By attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, the US and Israel have inadvertently strengthened the argument, in capitals around the world, that possessing a nuclear deterrent is the only reliable protection against regime-change military operations. North Korea’s leadership has already drawn this lesson explicitly. States that were wavering on nuclear development now have a powerful data point: non-nuclear states get attacked; nuclear states do not. Japan, as the only nation to have suffered nuclear attacks and a strong advocate for non-proliferation, faces an especially uncomfortable strategic landscape in a world where the deterrence argument for nuclear weapons has been reinvigorated by this conflict.