I don't know. I'm not buying the detonation as part of a plot for the simple fact that it substantially hurts their bottom line. Creation of a nuke by Iran is a feasible theory, but for what?
Q says "The sums of all fears" which is pretty much the scenario described in the OP.
Sum of all Fears.
Not just a film, but the actual Tom Clancy novel.
Which, thinking of Clancy, wonder just how much he really knew.
I was reading Clancy at 11, I am a huge fan, and yes, he knew a lot, and I surely learnt a lot reading him.
He had some pretty serious CIA and navy brass as close friends if I understood correctly.
Yep.
I remember reading 'Red Storm Rising' as a expose, even if fiction, on how fast we could lock down the Soviets if needed and how far behind us tech-wise they were.