@Willie cv,
Willie;68046 wrote:I agree. So? How is this a bad thing? We have more than enough to blow up Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn....why do we care if one more nation has it? We are the only ones to have used it.
It tears the teeth out of Israel's maw. THAT, above all, is the reason.
What did we do when Britain acquired a megaton weapon? India? Pakistan? North Korea? China? How about Russia?
Note that the aforementioned countries have done some rather... let's call them "questionable" actions (questionable being level with overthrowing a foreign government for profit) don't have any worries of attack from Israel or the US even though only two do not have the technology required to strike and obliterate them.
I'd pay GOOD money to see Nettie-yoohoo buck to Putin. All it will take is firing on the wrong ship (Israel's good at that) and there wouldn't be a thing the US would or could do about it.
Don't believe me? Georgia.