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The US Makes Most Compelling Case for Nuclear Proliferation

—The Left Chapter on why US foreign policy makes the development of nuclear weapons by non-nuclear power more likely.

Hell, overthrowing Qaddafi about 2 years after he gave up his WMD programs (Thanks, Hillary and Barack) was an abject lesson to the DPRK and Iran that security comes from developing nuclear weapons, not eschewing them.

The atomic bomb has been humanity’s most dangerous creation; that the United States government used the atom bomb twice against Japan’s civilians in August 1945 can neither be forgiven nor forgotten. It is fitting that one of the first acts of the United Nations in January 1946 was establishing a commission to deal with the ‘Problems Raised by the Discovery of Atomic Energy’. Yet, the resolution did not ban atomic weapons but simply sought to study its ‘problems’. Even after the grotesque demonstration in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States government was reluctant to permit the abolition of nuclear bombs. Having opened the doorway to Hell, there was no real desire to close it.

Creating the first major United Nations treaty to tackle atomic weapons took two decades. More importantly, the treaty did not ban nuclear weapons. While preventing further proliferation, it, nonetheless, allowed the then-nuclear powers—the United States (1945), the Soviet Union (1949), the United Kingdom (1952), France (1960), and China (1964)—to keep their nuclear arsenal. When the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) came into force in 1968, Israel likely had nuclear weapons (1967). Thereafter, despite the NPT, India (1974), Pakistan (1998), and North Korea (2006) developed and tested nuclear weapons. Of all these countries, only North Korea has been pressured to de-nuclearize by the United States and its allies. If it has refused, it is because denuclearising would lead to its annihilation.

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For a rational person, the example of Libya and North Korea sends out a very clear message: developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them are the most effective deterrent. In fact, each stage in the development of North Korea’s nuclear program was precipitated by the US stalling in the peace process or failing to carry out its promises for peace and security made to North Korea. In effect, North Korea’s two-track process allowed it to pursue its security through the diplomatic path when possible and through nuclear deterrence when necessary.

Take a look at US regime change actions over the last century, it's on the Wiki, and it's horrifying.

Destroying countries and freedom for the benefit of Chiquita and big oil.