American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard: For the United States and the West, nuclear weapons — at any level: tactical, strategic, EMPs, whatever — are viewed as something that should only be used as a last resort, and even then very carefully, on an escalation ladder, as they say. I don't care if you start throwing nukes immediately — responsibly, but immediately. And a case that I've been pushing is the use of an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or weapons, against Iran. Why are we waiting to get hit?