I think anyone should be able to build themselves a nuclear power plant. But as soon as they try to, those who currently have nuclear weapons will get paranoid and think they'll be building nukes right away. Hypocritical if you ask me.
Not that the fears are unfounded. Ideally nuclear weapons would not exist at all, but that isnt ever going to come to pass because those with power will want to keep it at all costs, and having nukes while denying anyone else the capability to make them keeps them on top.
However, I trust, or at least I want to trust, those who are currently nuclear capable to never use them, or in the USA's case never use them again.
But, what kind of scientists create weapons that can decimate entire countries in the blink on an eye? I know that it probably saved more lives from being lost if the US were to invade Japan with ground troops, but the after effects are just horrible. People in Japan are still dying from the fallout caused by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. Not to mention that anyone with enough money has the capability to acquire one. And what the USA is doing now, along with its allies, doesn't exactly signal a brighter future.
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The Bush administration, in a secret policy review, has ordered the Pentagon to draft contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons against at least seven countries, naming not only Russia and the \"axis of evil\"--Iraq, Iran, and North Korea--but also China, Libya and Syria.
In addition, the U.S. Defense Department has been told to prepare for the possibility that nuclear weapons may be required in some future Arab-Israeli crisis. And, it is to develop plans for using nuclear weapons to retaliate against chemical or biological attacks, as well as \"surprising military developments\" of an unspecified nature.
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In its dramatic shift towards increasingly aggressive nuclear and military policies, the Bush administration has opened a new era of increased likelihood of US nuclear weapons use. In turn, the administration has provoked the initiation of a new nuclear arms race as other states attempt to develop or increase their nuclear arsenals to counter-balance US military dominance and the threat of US willingness to employ the Bush doctrine of preemptive warfare
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It's a race allright, can there even be a winner?
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