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The more nations that have them, the higher the chance they'll be used. It's going to happen sooner than we think.
I actually think the Star TREK First Contact dates may be right.
Welp, hope you've all been saving your bottlecaps.
I've been hiding them all around my house in every openable container, so even in the event that I don't survive, a lone wanderer can at least benefit from my mild alcoholism.
Every country needs to have a nuke, based on what we're seeing the US and Israel do to Palestine and what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
Like is Palestine going to nuke us or Israel in your fantasy?
Any nation that wants to keep their sovereignty needs nukes. Agreements like the Budapest Memorandum were a mistake for some of the countries involved (Ukraine).
Lol, I wonder when Ukrainians will connect the dots that they're in this position solely because they put their faith into western powers that didn't deliver on their side of the bargain.
Ukraine did not have the infrastructure at the time to be able to even safely store the nuclear weapons they had. The nukes weren't going to stay either way at the time.
I mean, I have a chaotic solution we might try. Let's simply...reverse the Budapest Memorandum! Let's just hand Ukraine a few hundred thermonuclear warheads, with launchers and launch codes and say, "here, go have fun!"
"The president has announced...that we have reversed the Budapest Memorandum..."
:D
Hey it's like me in Civ4 gifting tactical nukes to countries to worsen the conflict
Short answer is yes. Trump has proven that any alliance is useless. So every country needs the ultimate deterrent. That means nuclear and a reliable delivery system. Thats the only way Russia, the us, China or other aggressors can be held at bay. Ukraine and Venezuela probably both regretting decisions that removed their deterrent.
Short answer is yes. Trump has proven that any alliance is useless. So every country needs the ultimate deterrent.
Good point.
This is scary for the increased risk of some pretty terrible outcomes but with US security guarantees as untrustworthy as they have become then actions like this are tough to argue against
If I was a South Korean or Taiwanese government official working to ensure future sovereignty, I'd be considering the same
I wouldn't be surprised if a bloc forms between Indo-Asia countries, providing mutual aid, nukes, and trade to box in China. Phillipines, Taiwan, India, Korea, Japan, Australia, all have good reasons to cooperate.
Anyone else feeling WW3 vibes yet? No? Just me? K
Rising fascism all over the place, what can possibly go wrong
The Security Dilemma of international relations: Keeping your own country safe requires doing things that will make your neighbours feel less safe.
Denmark needs the nuke too to protect it self from Russia, but also the US.
Med plutonium tvingar vi dansken på knä
I thought Japan could never have an army again after WW2, never mind nukes??
They had restrictions on their military, which were recently (in the last decade or so) lifted.
Not exactly, or at least not insofaras repealing article 9 (I think is the one). Japan has done a lot of "this isn't what it looks like and you can't prove it's not what we say it is" as a strategy for building things they probably "shouldn't".
Japan has been allowed a self-defense force. What that force can consist of/have/do has been quite restricted. They've built a lot of stuff that they probably technically aren't allowed to but have said "oh, that's not a ThingWeCannotHave but a SimlarButAllowedOrReducedThing". Recent rumblings have been about what constitutes self defense, which some wanting to include attacks on Taiwan, cyber warfare, pre-emptive strikes, and other stuff.
Then there are the factions that want to strip out the article of the constitution about self-defense-forces-only entirely. Unless I missed it, this has yet to be done.
As for nuclear weapons, I don't actually know if that's covered anywhere in the constitution or self-imposed. We're only recently getting to the point that there aren't really any survivors left, but their kids are still around and many fight against having it. As the US becomes a less-reliable ally, I see this resistance falling. Tension has always been high, particularly in Okinawa which always get shafted, between the US forces and civilians and I suspect it will continue to increase.
~ Dude living in Japan for a bit over a decade.
Rules don’t seem to apply anymore, so fuck it
It's been 80 years. Now USA is a bigger threat than japan.
Now I want to see a movie where the only country that can have nukes is the last one that got nuked.
I need em too.
Ask USA for some...
Well, that's what happens when you elect a fascist.
If one country has nukes, all countries should have nukes. It’s only fair.
No country should have nukes, and more countries acquiring them makes that goal even harder to achieve.
If some countries have nukes, probability of nuclear attack is high
As more countries have nukes, probability of nuclear attack drops significantly
It's impossible to have zero countries with nukes anymore, someone will always have secret nukes, which leads to high risk
As more countries have nukes, the chance goes up. More leaders have the opportunity to pull the trigger. It only takes one crazy guy taking power. Or one nuke left improperly secured, especially in an unstable country, and then it gets stolen and used, even as a dirty bomb.