When is an enemy threat imminent? Once the button has been pushed and a missile is on the way? That is obviously too late.

Does potentiality blossom into imminence when a nuclear warhead is being loaded at the launch site? Too late again. Why should a target nation wait until it’ll take luck in addition to skill and great technology to avoid mass destruction in a city of its own or of an ally?

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Or, more reasonably, is a threat imminent when a declared enemy has secretly enriched 968 pounds of uranium to weapons grade 60%, for which there is no civilian use and which can have no purpose other than to arm a nuclear weapon? That is what Iran did before the latest round of hostilities, as CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified........

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