CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ: name every country which has the atomic bomb. (tick..tick)...answer: the united states, russia, frqance, great britain, india, pakistan, china. israel is suspected of having it, but its official policy is to tell nobody whether it does. rumor has it that israel has lotd the united states, but agfain, that's just hearsay.
The iranians are undoubtedly working on it, and the north koreans may, or may not, have an atom bomb. Conspicuos by their omission are germany and japan, rich , modern, high tech countries whcuh are certainly capable of developing and buildig nucledar weapons.
B ut after world war two they both agreed not to, and they have stuck to that agreement fastidiously. There's a reason for that, and a very good one. Both germany and japan know very well what its like to be destroy with bombs, nuclear or conventional.
There are sill amny people, albeit fewer every day, who reme3mbver the horrors of world war two. You don't even have to remember world war two to be against nuclear weapons, all you have to do is read about it.
Thus, on those grounds, the united states is perfectly justified and correct in insisting that iran and north korea must not be allowed to develop atomic bombs. the united states would bed equally justified, if not more so, in declaring its intention of gettng rid, eventually, of all its nuclear weapons, fission and fusion.
It could also be argued that the united states, which invented the atomic bomb and is the only country to ever use it, has no moral right to insist on any other nation refraining from nuclear weaponry.
And yes, with each passing year, it is indeed more likely that some day some violent rogue terrrorist group will get a bomb, and use it, tragically. The solution is the total verifiable elimination of nuclear weaponry from this earth.
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