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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Nuclear non-proliferation is an important goal but extending that to saying the "no one else is allowed to have ANY military tech comparable to ours" is sketchy at best.
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Absolutely TS!!!!
The most hypocritical thing about it is that the Country that's usually acting like they have the right to dictate who does and who doesn't get to have the same right's to possess nuclear weapons as they do, the USA, are still the only Country to have committed the ultimate act of Nuclear aggression by dropping Nuclear weapons on a densely populated civilian target......TWICE!!!!
Japan had all but surrendered by that point (the agreement was drawn up and awaiting the signatures) but the US were hellbent on using the 'opportunity' to test two different types of Atomic Bomb on ''live targets'', a plutonium implosion-type (known as 'Fat Man') bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and a uranium gun-type (known as 'Little Boy') bomb was dropped on Hiroshima resulting in at least 129,000 deaths!!!!
As well as seeing this as an opportunity to test the weapons in a 'Real-World' scenario the other main motivation as recognized by many leading scholars in the field was 'Atomic Diplomacy' in that the United States used nuclear weapons in order to intimidate the Soviet Union in the early stages of the Cold War.
And when you've got someone as ignorant and ill-informed as Trump playing at being the US President, a man who didn't (and probably still really doesn't) grasp the concept of Nuclear Armageddon the whole situation is made exponentially more dangerous. Hopefully, by this stage in his calamitous excuse for a 'Presidency', i'd like to believe that any wires to any dangerous buttons Trump may have access to have been well and truly disconnected. Who knows just how far he'd go to distract from his many rapidly escalating scandals.