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> that most countries that want to become nuclear powers aren't able to do it How do you know this? The thing is that most countries don’t want to become nucl
by krisoft 3y ago
> that most countries that want to become nuclear powers aren't able to do it
How do you know this?
The thing is that most countries don’t want to become nuclear powers because there is a carefully setup and maintained set of incentives against it. This involves both carrots (you get good things if you don’t want nukes) and sticks (bad things happen to you if you do want nukes).
This set of incentives failed a few times and that is how we got nuclear proliferation. Almost everyone who wanted nukes enough despite this set of incentives were able to do it.
- kirubakaran 3y ago> How do you know this? I can't know for sure of course. But it seems reasonable to me to think that at least most of the dictators would want to have nukes to keep their hold on power. And there are many. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictatorship-countries https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictators...
- fbdab103 3y agoMost dictators are not being over-thrown by foreign powers. Nukes as a deterrence would seem to have little impact there. Unless you have a clear and immediate use, having a nuclear program seems like a very expensive money sink.