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Don't all nations have the right to Nuclear weapons?

The way I see it there are only 3 ways to look at this.

1) If any nation has the right to Nuclear weapons then all nations have this right.

2) No nation has the right to Nuclear weapons

3) Some nations(including the only nation to have ever used these weapons in war) have the right to monopolize the control of Nuclear weapons into their hands alone, while preventing any other nation from obtaining such weapons.

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  • Zenos
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    If you want to defend the right of a country like North Korea to have nukes, then go ahead, but just keep in mind that North Korean dictators do not seem to be very stable in their thinking, and neither does the leader of Iran. Btw, the U.S. used atomic bombs to END WWII, or did you not know that? Your first statement does not necessarily have to be true, because ALL nations do not know how to successfully BUILD nuclear weapons.

  • Bogdan
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Your argument may be philosophically correct. How is it right that countries like the usa, russia, great britain, etc. have nukes but they disallow anyone else from having them. But this is not a philosophy class, this is real life, and the only countries that have had nuclear ambitions recently are ones that definetly shouldnt have them.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    No, they don't have any such right

    If a nation is collectively smart enough, and has the resources, they can do it

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Nope.

    None of them have a "Right" to them.

    They all have the option to try to get them.

    All of us have the option to try to stop them.

    It's pretty simple.

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