> If you are afraid of nuclear war, the thing to fear is a nuclear state's capacity to retaliate being questioned. That's why nuclear capabilities and capaciti

> If you are afraid of nuclear war, the thing to fear is a nuclear state's capacity to retaliate being questioned. That's why nuclear capabilities and capacities are best reduced by universal compact. It is certainly not helping when they are being _enhanced. Also, I'm worried about the US initiating more than I do about it retaliating. > North Korea, the American interventions in the Middle East and Ukraine set the precedent that nuclear sovereignty is in a separate category from the treaty-enforced kind. I don't understand this sentence because I'm not familiar with the combined term "nuclear sovereignty". Regardless - it is certainly the case that non-proliferation won't be made on the back of aging and degrading weapons; there must a continued commitment to NP in the sense of not developing new weapons. > One invites war by refusing to prepare for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question Anyway, the US initiates most of its wars, so the "invitation" is irrelevant.