{"id":45393,"date":"2026-03-31T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/45393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:44:16","slug":"warren-buffett-says-iran-bomb-would-make-nuclear-disaster-harder-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/45393\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett says Iran bomb would make nuclear disaster harder to avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/108285338-17749613231774961320-44934559393-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Buffett: The world is more dangerous with Iranian nuclear weapons\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/warren-buffett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Buffett<\/a> warned that the spread of nuclear weapons is making the world a more dangerous place, saying the prospect of Iran acquiring a bomb would heighten the risk of a catastrophic conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BRK.B\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a> chairman said the growing number of nuclear-armed states has fundamentally altered the global risk landscape, amplifying concerns he has voiced for decades about proliferation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now you&#8217;ve got \u2026 nine countries,&#8221; Buffett said on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/squawk-box-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Squawk Box<\/a>&#8221; on Tuesday. &#8220;We worried enormously about it when there were two. \u2026 You were not dealing with unstable people or anything like that. The ship&#8217;s turned around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buffett pointed specifically to rising geopolitical tensions involving Iran and North Korea, suggesting that the potential presence of nuclear weapons in those regions raises the stakes considerably.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just think of how you&#8217;d feel with North Korea having it and Iran wanting to get it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The most dangerous thing is, actually, somebody that&#8217;s got their hand on the switch, who is dying themselves, or is facing enormous embarrassment. &#8230; I don&#8217;t know the answer for it, but I do know that \u2026 it&#8217;ll be more difficult if Iran has the bomb than they don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 95-year-old investor has long warned that the spread of nuclear capabilities increases the likelihood of a worst-case scenario. Asked what advice he would give a U.S. president confronting the issue of enriched uranium, Buffett struck a fatalistic tone about the long-term trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say that one way or another \u2026 in the next 100 years \u2014 maybe it&#8217;s 200 years, who knows \u2014 something will happen to cause it to be used,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we can&#8217;t take what&#8217;s out there now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett warned that the spread of nuclear weapons is making the world a more dangerous place, saying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[18864,1005,3437,157,124,135,18866,563,1094,698,34,165,161,207,2246,171,81,570,2361,18865],"class_list":["post-45393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-berkshire-hathaway-inc","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-breaking-news-investing","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-bwx-technologies-inc","tag-general-dynamics-corp","tag-huntington-ingalls-industries-inc","tag-investment-strategy","tag-iran","tag-ishares-u-s-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-lockheed-martin-corp","tag-markets","tag-north-korea","tag-northrop-grumman-corp","tag-politics","tag-stock-markets","tag-wall-street","tag-warren-buffett"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116325270432989737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}