Reply #2: If by "existential threat" she means a nuclear arms Iran would

[RaleighNCDUer]

threaten the very existance of the US, she clearly (like many people) overestimates the potential for damage a nuclear weapon can do. Russia's nuclear arsenal, or ours, fit those terms for each other. None of the lesser nuclear powers have enough nuclear power to threaten our very existance. Even China, with a couple hundred nukes, though it could do massive damage, would not literally wipe out the country. If we lost half our population of 300 million, we would have 150 million left, leaving us in the top ten populations in the world.

OTOH, if Iran nuked us we would retaliate in a way they could, very literally, erase that country from existance. We could nuke every population center of 20,000 or higher and barely dent our nuclear arsenal. This isn't MAD. It's suicide.

They are NOT a nuclear threat to us.

And Iran knows it.

And if Hillary doesn't know that, she's not as smart as she porports to be.