I'd beg to differ on the USA not needing these bombs. They may be terrible weapons full of deeply problematic moral questions, but as long as vast arsenals of t

I'd beg to differ on the USA not needing these bombs. They may be terrible weapons full of deeply problematic moral questions, but as long as vast arsenals of them exist in the hands of definitively hostile countries like Russia and China, the U.S certainly does need them. In an ideal world, these weapons would have never been developed at all, but since they have been, I prefer multiple politically counterbalanced powers having them over one side rejecting them completely while others maintain theirs and use them to threaten the world ever more frequently. Just to note a further obvious point, the death of the USSR is irrelevant in this context. It didn't at all stop modern, politically aggressive Russia from having at least hundreds of usable nukes with which to threaten Europe.