The Guardian view on Israel, the US and Iran: you can't bomb your way out of nuclear proliferation

Eighty years after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 40 years after the US and Soviet Union pledged to reduce their arsenals, the threat of nuclear war has resurged with a vengeance. The age of disarmament is over, a prominent thinktank warned this week: "We see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric and the abandonment of arms control agreements," said Hans M Kristensen of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The world's nine nuclear-armed states have amassed the equivalent of 145,000 Hiroshima bombs. Israel's illegal attack upon Iran is purportedly a last-ditch…