Donald Trump posed a rhetorical question the other night in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that demonstrated again his casual, ill-informed attitude toward deadly serious policy.
“Now, wouldn’t you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?” Trump asked. No, we wouldn’t. And virtually no one who thinks about the issue for more than a nanosecond would want to see that, either.
U.S. opposition to nuclear proliferation makes as much sense today as it did 50 years ago.
And the policy has been successful, despite the breakout of nations such as North Korea. In fact, more countries were pursuing or had acquired such weapons in the 1960s than is the case today.
The more nations that possess nukes, the more likely they will be controlled by unstable, desperate regimes with nothing to lose. And the more likely they’ll be used.
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