Erik said: > Perhaps if you were a stupid Iranian, you might have that opinion.
Perhaps owning nukes forces governments to grow up a bit because countries with nuclear weapons are forced to enter the highly rational world of mutual deterrence or else face total disaster. (They may not have to enter into an arrangement of mutual deterrence with the big, powerful states but in a highly proliferated world they would certainly have to enter into such relationships with at least some other states.) On the other hand, I'm not sure how well the idea of MAD would work regionally because there's not so much time to retaliate before the enemy warheads land, which may in turn lead to an unstable situation in which each side can "win" by pre-empting the other. Rich ROU Unilaterally Assured Destruction
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