sarcasm much?

According to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear arms are dangerous to international relations and human existence in general. In short, they're bad and signatories of the treaty agree to disarm.

Oh, unless you're the government of France, China, the UK, Russia or the United States (who also the five permanent members of the UN security council. surprise!). Then it's fine. Really, just hold onto them. Those ~1000 actively deployed nuclear warheads of China or the 5,113 the US has, that's fine. Because we all know that all of those countries are never wrong or wage any horrific, unjust wars.

Also, Israel can apparently just do what it wants, being such a strategic ally of the US. And Pakistan is allowed to test nowadays because it's important to the war in Afghanistan. But if a strategically unimportant nation decides to develop weapons, especially if it's not full of white people, then watch out. That's what the schisms with North Korea and Iran are about. Apparently the evil empires are the ones with nuclear weapons. Even one. But not 5,113--that's a number bristling with freedom.

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I have heard the justification that we (we apparently being the rich people) need such weapons to maintain the delicate balance of power between less than friendly nations--such as the US and China. But such huge stockpiles are also useful as a deterrent. No one would dare attack those nations while they hold the trump card. As a result, they act as a worldwide protection against others developing nuclear arms. You know what I say to that?



Those five nations have some of the bloodiest and most manipulative records in the last 50 years. They support brutal dictatorships for strategic or business interests, wage proxy wars against each other and, most chillingly, are willing to use said nuclear or atomic weapons, often on civilian targets as in the case of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. This is clearly a case of might makes right. The governments with the biggest guns are trying to rewrite history and shape perceptions that they are somehow the shining white knights. Well, I'm more scared of those five countries than anything Iran can put together.

Oh, and enjoy the 1.03 TRILLION DOLLARS the US is spending on the military this year. I feel the world becoming safer as we speak.