Actually, you are delusional enough to believe that it won't.
Now assume there were private US citizens with nukes as well who could think of nothing better than to airmail them to Iraq.
Uh-huh. There's also US citizens who might think of nothing better to do than to, for example, airmail that nuke to New York City, or Beijing, or some other place. Here's a thought: Lyndon LaRouche, who apparently really believes that the Queen of England is a major-league narcotraficante, gets a nuke. How long before London disappears in a blinding white flash? And then how long before whoever's left in the Royal Navy's chain of command sends a really rash signal to whichever V-boat is on deterrent patrol?
You appear to deny the existence of evil--or you merely assign its existence to government. Unfortunately, evil is a product of human minds.
It'd make for a REAL short war. If we had had that kind of a policy from the beginning... we would probably still have two really tall office towers standing in New York.
More likely: we would have a radioactive crater where New York City used to be. Remember, the concept works both ways, and some folks are inherently undeterrable. It might make for a short war...and a long bout of the Dark Ages.
You presume that everyone is as rational as you believe yourself to be; this is actually a sign of your own irrationality.
People should arms themselves BECAUSE there are irrational people out there. People like you who trust the government to be loaded to the hilt with the latest and greatest, but then you sh!t yourself at the idea that the Bubba down the street may have himself an "ugly rifle" or one the shoots too many bullets.
I should have known better than to try and talk to you about this again. You still haven't grown up in the slightest.