Eight decades after Hiroshima, nuclear deterrence is back in vogue. But while nuclear powers pump money into modernising their arsenals, two thirds of UN members have signed a treaty to ban them.
Eight decades after Hiroshima, nuclear deterrence is back in vogue. But while nuclear powers pump money into modernising their arsenals, two thirds of UN members have signed a treaty to ban them.
Disarmament and non-proliferation is an excuse to meddle with the many not-so-small-as-the-big-boys-would-like nations.
Give a dictator “the bomb”, and it becomes clear that he is the boogey-man holding his nation hostage. No excuse to consolidate power where it can all be destroyed at-once by your own side, and pretending anyone wants to invade your killswitch’ed capital becomes a much-thinner facade.
That’s precisely why the west won’t give its favorite dictators the bomb, and why those dictators know-better than to seek it.
Am I saying North Korea and Iran aren’t fascist-dictatorships? No, but keeping them from having the bomb isn’t really a good excuse to *help those governments isolate, dominate, and radicalize their people by punishing them economically, restricting their peoples’ freedom of movement, and bombing them whenever too many of their best-and-brightest get together in one place.
It’s no better an excuse than Oil, nor “drugs” or communism.