President Trump recently offered the Islamic Republic of Iran a 15-point plan to end the war. Beside provisions regarding opening the Strait of Hormuz, halting missile production and eliminating support for terror proxies, the centerpiece of the deal demands Iran surrender their enriched uranium, dismantle all nuclear factories and commit, with inspections, to never pursue nuclear weapons.

President Trump has been consistent, and with a sense of urgency, wanting to protect the United States from a nuclear Iran. In 2011, well before Donald Trump was a candidate for the presidency, and before Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu spoke before the United Nations and in front of the U.S. Congress, he said, “We can’t allow Iran to go nuclear.”

With the noisy, politically motivated opposition reveling in negativity to America’s involvement in the war coming from the Democrats, Left-wing pundits and the Far-Right, it’s worthwhile remembering the simple reason for President Trump’s strategic plan to attack Iran with the placement of troops in harm’s way.

Let’s be clear what’s at stake.

At the instant an atomic bomb – like the one ignited over Hiroshima or the one that Iran was developing – is detonated, it creates heat hotter than the sun’s core. Scientists estimate the terrifying physics creates an unimaginable temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius. The resultant explosion produces heat, energy, and radiation unlike any other kind of chemical reaction.

If a nuclear weapon explodes in the heart of an American city or Tel........

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