repost: Are you in favor of ALL countries having nuclear weapons?

[bananas]

Based on this poll, anyone considering security clearance should stay the hell away from DU.

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Are you in favor of ALL countries having nuclear weapons?

Poll question: Simple poll: Are you in favor of ALL countries having nuclear weapons?
They already exist, so wishing no one had them ain't gonna work.

Do you feel more safe with less countries having them or more? And how would you propose to stop others from getting them if you don't think they should have them.

If you think they should have them, is there any reason why they should not be made in the USA and sold to others? We could use the money...

Poll result (56 votes)
Yes (17 votes, 30%) Vote
No (39 votes, 70%) Vote

[kristopher]

1. Since Reagan in 1980

In 1980 Reagan tried to gut Carter's 1978 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act saying he didn't think it was "any of our business whether other nations acquired nuclear weapons."
The logic was that by making plutonium readily available in international commerce and by becoming "a reliable and very competitive" commercial supplier in the international arena, the US would have its greatest leverage over the plutonium consuming nations. According to this logic, this would provide us with the leverage to discourage other nations from building their own weapons. It was a policy strongly supported by Dixon Hoyle of Westinghouse and Myron Kratzner of International Energy Associates Ltd.

The objection was that other nations just might see this position validating the commercial use of plutonium fuel as making the right to reprocess an "unassailable national right". (Iran anyone?)

I wonder how much longer the fantasy of Ronny Raygun is going to persist?

[qazplm]

2. all countries are not created equal

would you like the Sudan to have nukes?

How about Serbia?

There are a lot of countries you REALLY dont want to have nukes.

While of course ideally no one has nukes, on the other hand one could argue that it was nukes that kept the Soviets and NATO from going to war.

Still in balance, Id prefer them all gone, but since that isnt realistic, I'd like them concentrated in a few nations, not a lot.

[TooBigaTent]

3. Only countries that have actually used a nuclear weapon against human beings should be

prevented from possessing them.

All other nations should be given the benfit of the doubt.

[madokie]

4. something kind of like that for sure