Israel striked Syria and Iraq before they had nuclear weapons.
If they managed to create one, that would be a whole other story.
If they created dozens, Israel would have to rely on its air defenses, destroying all of them would be nearly impossible if fielded on submarines or deep hidden missile silos.
You are right but my point was it's wrong to think that only nuclear weapons make you true power....
If that was the case then USA, China, Russia wouldn't have spent trillions of dollars on conventional weapons after having biggest nuclear arsenal....
See you need decent war fighting capability which only conventional weapons give you....
Suppose if tomorrow someone attack NK like 9/11 then can they take revenge like USA by projecting their power??? Forget NK even China is still far away from such capability of projecting their power in any corner of the world and teach some country a lesson.....Their nukes are useless in this scenario.... that means they are not a true power.....
Conventional weapons only allowing Israel and Turkey to take everyone for a ride in their region.... in SCS nobody is afraid of Chinese nuclear weapons but they fear those scary Type 55s....
If this fire power comparison going nuclear then except USA all nuclear powers are useless as nobody including Russia comes even close to USA when it comes to power projection....
If somebody gives me a choice to make India a biggest nuclear power with biggest ICBM arsenal but to keep it's conventional capability as outdated as NK or forget all nukes and have ultra modern conventional force like Israel or SK I will opt for second choice.....
Having a nuclear weapon and destroying a nuclear plant is two different things. Even India came close to destroy Pakistani nuclear program until Morarji Desai blurted it out.
Still only nukes don't make you true power.... you can't use nukes in small skirmish type wars.... if you are conventionally weak then even if you are biggest nuclear power then also you will be embarrassed in such wars if you are conventionally weak...