I agreed with your entire post except for the above part. There is actually one scenario where a country that spent billions on making and acquiring a nuke, may give it to a rag tag bunch of terrorists. For example, if the country wanted to utilize their bomb and capitalize on their investment per say, they may not want to be implicated in the nuking. For example if they wanted to nuke another county that would completely annihilate them if they knew they were responsable for the nuking. This may have already occurred when apparently a very good middle man was utilized in the Anthrax WMD attack on the US. We still dont know who the middle man even was in that case of WMD utilization.
"I agreed with your entire post except for the above part. There is actually one scenario where a country that spent billions on making and acquiring a nuke, may give it to a rag tag bunch of terrorists."
And I agree with what you say. Of course Pakistan's doctor Kahn and his goons, are now exposed. I guess within the context of my statement, I should have made note of the exception to the rules. Obviouse to us all, North Korea could also fall under this same scenario. Perhaps I tend to give to much credit to these rouge nations in their ability to obtain any sense of responsiblity once obtaining such a terrible weapon system. Thanks for the insight I failed to bring forth.