General Discussion

"OMG they're going to blow up the world!" Russia, China, Pakistan, North Korea. The fact of the matter is that a nuclear bomb is, in many ways, the most useless weapon in the world, because all or these "bad guys" know that if they drop the bomb anywhere, be it on the US, Isreal, wherever, that somebody is going to drop a shit ton of nukes on them. MAD, mutually assured destruction. Even the craziest of world leaders knows this. The only thing a bomb is good for is to deter another country from dropping the bomb on them.

Fact of the matter is the US is still the only country to drop the big ones in war, and we were only able to do so because nobody else had one. After Russia got the bomb, and MAD was established, not another bomb was dropped. Meanwhile they sit in their silos, eating up billions in maintenence costs, never to be fired.

I'm not terribly worried about Iran getting a bomb because like North Korea, they're not going to use it. They have a healthy sense of self preservation.