“You are aware that (declared or not) Taiwan has been a nuclear power since the early eighties, are you not?”
You’re right, Taiwan has had nuclear reactors providing electrical power for many years. The question is whether they’ve developed their own nuclear weapon, like quite a few other nuclear capable countries may or may not have, such as Japan, Germany, Italy, South Korea, etc. I maintain that it is time for these countries to acquire nuclear weapons, if they have not already done so, for their own protection and to stop relying on the United States to provide a nuclear umbrella for them. Attempts to stop nuclear proliferation have become totally counterproductive.
Not what I was talking about in any way.
Taiwan was detonating test warheads in 1983 and the reds were getting rattled.
Reagan held talks with Taiwan, and the weapon testing stopped,
The scuttlebutt at Kadena airbase at the time was that since they had working warheads anyway Reagan had traded rhem proven designs in exchange for ending their live testsl
In no way do I believe any such nonsense as Taiwan just scrapping their alrady functional nuclear weapons program at the height of the cold war.