This sounds familiar. "Disarm by October 31 or else."

I wonder if the answer will be "or else what?" again?

Knowing these guys its "or else we will pass another resolution condeming you." Ooh - scary!

..this is getting so old,or else what ,again we have to cover the worlds sorry ass..

Well if an Country developes Nuclear Weapons, should it be invaded before it's ready?

Sound exactly like this. Someone really seem to be scared to lose power.

At last Nuclear deterrence worked quite good over decades, and Countries gathering Nuclear weapons are not really uncommon, so i think someone need a more pragmatic approach to this.
See Israel, Pakistan or India.
Japan and Germany and most European countries could build them if they want. It's not a real technological problem. It's also not really a problem for Countries like Brasil, Mexico or several other countries around the Globe to develop Nuclear Weapons on their own knowledge and Science.

So what to do with all these Countries that might be able to develop Nukes on their own in the next decades? And they will, because Mr. Bushs tactic about premptive Wars will force them to do this step to keep their souvereignity.
Invade them all? Bomb their Reactors? Nuke them?

Sounds not like a plan, sorry.

Don't forget Atomic Bomb technology exist since 1945. That's not really new technology.
I think it's unavoidable that these technology will spread, even without proliferation. To control this and to prevent missuse should be the goal to reach. Not the pure denial.

That's the point i think. If Iran developes Nukes without primary help from outside, these nukes are their nukes, just like the US nukes belong to US.
Only if they break the non proliferation treaty, wich would they automatically do if they don't develop these weapons on their own, they would be punishable in a way. But even this don't justifies an invasion.

Beside this there is not even hard evidence Iran do develop nukes.

Why had the USA developed Nukes, ever asked yourself? Because they are cool?
It's expensive so they probably had a reason don't think so?

Well for all non Historicans as you usually are i can tell you, because they feared Nazi Germany or Japan could had been faster, wich would have probably ended the War with a diffrent result as we know.

So fear created the US Atomic Bomb, beside a large budget. I think the reasons for other Countries who want to develop Atomar Bombs are compareable. Pakistan developed them because they feared to be overrun from India. Israel because they feared after the Jom Kippur War they could be overrun by Egypt or other Arabic nations.
North Korea developed them because they fear since the Korean War they could be overrun by US forces. And so on.

It's anyway what you do. Countries with nukes will popup like mushrooms in the next 2 or 3 decades.
Hopefully the nukes they create don't.

But that's a matter of negotiation, not Wars.
Wars will not be very helpful to solve that problem. Especially the diffrent treatment of Iraq and NK makes all countries want to have nukes. Independence and souvereignity seem somehow linked to have nukes is their perception.

The US forces still struggle in Iraq because of wrong intelligence. Such a wrong intelligence could be next time fatal if the opponent really has nukes unexpectedly.

Another reason not to go to War with a Nuke possessing suspected country.
There are other more safe working options.

How soon the world forgets.

For most of 30 years, the US defended against the bent-on-world-domination Soviet Union with a policy of MAD. We built and deployed literally tens of thousands of nuclear and thermonuclear warheads. We aimed them, and cocked them, and held our fingers just off the triggers.

Enough weapons to destroy every living thing on the planet, many times over. What was the message we were sending?

That America would NEVER be conquered. That we would destroy the world before we would knuckle under.

And so now various tinhorn thugocracies have concluded that if they build a couple of little nukes, this will somehow cow the US into submission.

Guess again. We were willing to use nuclear weapons before, we HAVE used them before, and we're willing to do it again. We don't want to, but be assured that we will.

Iran, NK, and others should stop and consider just what we were saying to the world during the Cold War. And also consider what has happened to those who have threatened us lately. And then consider how we might respond if threatened with nuclear weapons.

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