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Originally Posted by The Black Ghost
Yes, but we would never use them, although this is true. There has been a continuing arms reduction over the years still, but the balance of weaponry between ex-soviet nations and the US must maintain the status quo is the thinking I would guess. Mutually assured destruction was probably the only thing that kept the world from being destoryed during the cold war and as long as there is even some minor threat of that happening in the future, both sides will maintain a large portion of their arsenal.
But the issue of other non-involved nations gaining nuclear weaponry has always been an issue. The thought behind it being that third-world nations ruled by dictators would be more willing to actually use nukes as weaponry. North Korea especially, since they are still at war with the south. Iran, Iraq, and NK all have bad track records with the use of banned weaponry in war and abuse of human rights, which is what sparked the "axis of evil" comment back in 2002.
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NK would not use nukes against the US.
It would mean the destruction of there entire country. It is a simple matter of country size. China would not retaliate if it was because of a direct attack on the US.
There is definitely reason they would want to have them. So other countries do not screw with them. They would want to use them just about as much as we would want to try to use ours against russia or china.
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