The USA was the first to harness the power of the atom for, first weapons use and then energy production.
Kind of like being the only guy on the block with a .44 magnum.
and not only that, we used it, needlessly! Japan had tried to broker a surrender, but the US war machine wanted to scare the USSR and others with this show of might and Japan was a reasonable target for such a purpose.
Anyway, I know that if I had a bully with a .44 on my street, I would want to be able protect myself with an equal level of menace (I do not pretend otherwise)
If the USA, Russia, France, India, England and China, have 'the bomb', why stop other countries from developing it? these countries are in no means intrinsically better or nicer or less apt to use it (remember we did, as soon as we had it)
Isn't this just additional motivation for smaller countries to actually WANT "the bomb"?
Don't they have a right to be scared of the existing superpowers?
2007-10-26
14:00:32
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