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Are you referring to MAD with regards to the US and Iran? If so, it does not and cannot apply to a nation like Iran. In order for it to work, both nations would have to be reasonably certain that they would be destroyed as a result of launching nukes, and that the other nation had the ability to mount a roughly equivalent counterstrike. That is not the case here; our arsenal is far superior to theirs, and so is our ability to shoot down their missiles.
While that is true, MAD in the sense that Iran will not nuke us because they know what will happen to them. Our potential to turn them into radioactive glass deters them from actually using a weapon.
As to your other point, you are entirely correct. It's not logical to assume that Iran would give away its best weapons, for any purpose.
Especially when no country in history has ever done that. Even arguebly one of the biggest backers of Islamic terrorism, Pakistan keeps its weapons under extreme lock and key and screens its military who watch over them for Islamic whackos. Allegedly, they keep them dismantled and seperated for fear of Indian attack and theft.
However, one should never discount the illogical, as it is still possible. Who knows...maybe they fear having their weapons siezed or destroyed, so they'd smuggle them out of the country and give them to like-minded islamic groups.
A very good point indeed, but one that does not support the use of a missile defense. I agree that nuclear theft and smuggling is arguebly the biggest nuclear threat to America. Russia has thousands of weapons poorly guarded with even more thousands of pounds of fissile material poorly guarded if guarded at all. Like I said, it's a damn good reason to believe in God because we haven't got nuked yet. Given how poorly fissile material and ready to use weapons are guarded and the awful nature of our borders and ports, not to mention how cheap lead is to line a container...it doesn't seem logical as to why we haven't gotten hit yet.