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colejhudsonlast Saturday at 4:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is a red herring. Rogue regimes will, by construction, seek the security offered by nuclear weapons. Hence the need, where possible, to apply diplomatic or military means to prevent exactly that.


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cirwyzlast Saturday at 9:12 PM

The US is the rogue regime in this scenario.

mattmaroonlast Saturday at 9:55 PM

That’s counter to what happened for several decades when we actually cared about preventing it. Few regimes at all sought them and several were convinced to abandon nuclear programs.