In the early eighties, Taiwan was test detonating their emerging nuclear arsenal at sea. This rattled the mainland communists, and Reagan negotiated a cessation of provocative nuclear preparations. The detonation ceased.
The cessation didn't come about because Taiwan abandoned their plan of defense. It came about because the United States provided Taiwan with tested designs.
This load of horse manure is of the same stripe as similar pieces written about Israel in the sixties and seventies when we were pretending the world didn't know Israel was the eight hundred pound nuclear gorilla of the middle east.
You asked my opinion, there it is, and there is why.
Semper Fidelis.
Well thank you.
Political power flows from the warhead of a nuclear missile.