Originally Posted by kenny

Building nuclear weapons historically leads to escalation. Building even more nuclear weapons or leading to pressure for another government to build nuclear weapons.

To understand why thats so undesirable would require you to understand how powerfull todays nuclear bombs are.

The terms are thrown around so loosely.

When they dropped those bombs of Japan. There was nothing left of some people but their shadows edged into concrete from massive x-ray emissions..

The weapons these days are several hundred times as powerfull as those.