Bullshit. (This is not profanity -- it's an accurate description.)
Terrorists are not interested in control. They are interested in horror.
Pakistan is not interested in control. Pakistan is interested in not getting conquered by India.
India is not interested in control. India is interested in responding to Pakistan, and in not getting conquered by China.
China wants to threaten its neighbors, and to use its nuclear arsenal as a backstop to prevent us or Russia from intervening.
And on and on and on.....
These people think everybody will play nice because the alternative is so bad. Everybody thought the same thing after the First World War, too.
Arabs have oil. Others need it. The Arabs can buy what they want including nukes from some Russian rogues. These get passed along to the Al Qaeda folks or somebody without direct ties to Arab leaders, smuggled into Israel on the back of a teenager and BLAMMO. You know they'd do it...