| Kyros said: Since they exist and less democratic countries have them and more will get them, democratic countries NEED to also have access to them. That doesn't mean that every democratic country needs them but NATO should have access to nuclear deterrence. |
This pretty much sums up my viewpoint. The Superpowers during the cold war used the principal of mutual assured destruction ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction ) to prevent attacks on their interests from the opposing factions. Other members of the G7 followed suit and it was then impossible to stop smaller countries from trying to get access to the power on the world scene that possessing a nuke and the ballistic technology to fly it to a place of interest automatically and instantaneously gives you.
Hopefully, rogue states will one day become more docile which will allow not just for them to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_non_proliferation_treaty ) and eventually for all nations to disarm.
