Nuclear weapons are a strange lot.
As soon as xyz country gets a nuke or two and a capable delivery system (or really not even that in the case of iran, being just a short jaunt over iraq to the greater israel area) they get political power. Why do you think europe stopped fighting? :P
The interesting outcome of this would be if we didn't stop nuclear proliferation, two things would result. One would be that as smaller and smaller subdivisions had nuclear capabilities, they could essentially make themselves smaller and smaller countries, as invasion would become less of a possibility, buuut...
With greater amounts of stockpiles of varying degrees of security, it could also lead to accidents, and nuclear accidents are just the worst kind of accidents o_O
Makes you wonder though--what would we say if Greece or something was developing nuclear power in an attempt to become energy self-sufficient? How would the EU respond to that? (I'm not familiar with Greece's situation in that regard and I realize it's an impossibility economically for that country, just curious if a friendly nation would begin developing it what would be the end result? Or are 'friendly nations' synonomous with 'nuclear nations' ?)
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11-04-2011, 03:52 AM
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