Would have been smart for them to build nukes back when China was still weak.
Additional realistic members of the "nuclear club"?
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Would have been smart for them to build nukes back when China was still weak.
A little bit of reading about the Libyan nuclear weapons program:
Giving Up on the Bomb: Revisiting Libya’s Decision to Dismantle its Nuclear Program
What did Libyan officials think they would get from the 2003 deal? Why did they abandon the nuclear weapons program and what were their reactions to the outcome of the deal prior to the 2011 uprising?
TheRomanSlayer
Proud Anti-Catholic Bigot
If we had different leaders and policies, the Philippines could be a potential nuclear club member. Problem is, SE Asia is declared a nuclear free zone.
TheRomanSlayer
Proud Anti-Catholic Bigot
If we had nuclear weapons though, we could have stopped China from stealing more of the disputed Spratly Islands.
But using nuclear weapons over this is very risky since it could trigger an all-out nuclear war and it's not a battle for existential survival.
bintananth
behind a desk
Merely posessing nuclear weapons is, I think, what @TheRomanSlayer was getting at. Toss in a stated willingness to use "all of them" at a moment's notice and the borders will not by challenged by any country which can't go "tit-for-tat"
Yes, I got all of that.
History Learner
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Francoist Spain, Taiwan, Sweden and Brazil.
Not Argentina? They came fairly close to this before democracy was restored there in the 1980s, IIRC.
Poland I suppose could seek nuclear weapons had NATO been disbanded after the end of the Cold War. Also possible but less likely are Czechoslovakia, the Baltics, and Romania doing the same thing. Or they could simply rely on the Polish nuclear umbrella.
The Poles could have faith that the Germans accepted the Oder-Neisse Line, but they might still want a precaution just in case.
The Poles could have faith that the Germans accepted the Oder-Neisse Line, but they might still want a precaution just in case.
gral
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They were further ahead than Brazil, but I'm not sure they were 'fairly close' to having it.
raharris1973
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Is Jelcyn your attempt to spell Yeltsin? Does it work as a joke in a Slavic language like your your 'Sralin' thing does? (You also call Trotsky 'Trocky', does that work as a joke in Russian or Polish?)
Anyway, why would a nuclear Belarus and Ukraine with a no-NATO pledge be a better outcome, short-term or long-term, for Russia? And what keeps those countries honoring the no-NATO pledge forever?
Jelcyn in polish language.Trocky - my mistake.
Better outcome for Russia,becouse safe countries do not need USA Big brother.Which now is needed for us.
I would prefer Poland with 500 nuclear warheads,but,when it is impossible,i must agree to USA Big brother,becouse otherwise Putin would denazify me.
Batrix2070
RON/PLC was a wonderful country.
Technically, we were looking for this capability in the 1970s, a dream of Gierek that clearly did not come true. And the chief scientist responsible for Poland's nuclear program (more accurately, nuclear fusion but let's not get hung up on the details) died in a car accident. Wonder why.
ATP transcribed the name according to English phonetics but through a Polish transcription from Russian.
Correctly it should be Trocki.