Reply #74: Some must think Iran poses a greater threat with a handfull of nukes

[Tom Rinaldo]

against tens of thousand of nukes collectively held by Iran's adversaries than either China or the Soviet Union posed the United States with their bristling armeries. Maybe that's because both China and the Soviet Union had a demonstrated track record of a willingness to send large numbers of their troops swarming into neighboring nations in actual combat, whereas Iran has no modern record of so behaving. That could be it I suppose.