Rule of thumb. Do not gift nukes to morons to lazy or broke to build their own.
You don’t hand a toddler a loaded 38.
Frederic Brown.
Astounding Science Fiction, 1951, “The Weapon”, a visitor gives a loaded revolver to an atomic weapons scientist’s retarded child after his plea for restraint in his research is rejected.
Toddler?
Look into the history of the Baltic states and how they have suffered at the hands of the Nazis and Russians. THeyu need deterrence.
They are hardly todders, for if they are, then so is Israel.
“On 13–14 June 1941, during one night alone, more than 40,000 people were ‘taken by truck to gathering points at peripheral railroad stations, packed into boxcars, and then taken to different points in the interior of the USSR’.9
In 1941, Germany attacked the USSR and occupied the Baltic states. The Nazis began carrying out their own repression campaign; murdering local Jews, Roma and those with Communist sympathies. Also, a significant number of Jews from other countries were brought into the Baltics for execution. Altogether some 300,000 people were murdered on Baltic soil during the German Occupation.10”
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