Did you know that 10,000 ballistic missiles — each carrying one to two tons of explosives — could cause as much, or even more, devastation than a Hiroshima-style atomic bomb?

Before Israel’s three strikes on Iranian territory — the most consequential in June 2025 — Iran was racing toward mass production of precision-guided ballistic missiles. This wasn’t hypothetical. Tehran was preparing to flood Israel’s airspace with thousands of advanced rockets designed to overwhelm its multi-layered defense systems: Arrow, David’s Sling and Iron Dome.

The editor-in-chief of The Times of Israel wrote that it was the sober, unified judgment of Israel’s intelligence and military chiefs that led to the preemptive strike. The country wasn’t just weeks from a nuclear breakout — it was also on the verge of deploying a missile arsenal with the power to incapacitate Israel’s economy, overwhelm its defenses and inflict mass civilian casualties.

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani once infamously called Israel a “one-bomb country.” Today, that warning must be updated: Israel is now a........

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