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Re:Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia Is Turning to Nuclear Power by friedButter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:31AM (#16628348)
> It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War

Isnt US the only country to have used multiple nuclear bombs in a real war, but still allowed to keep them?

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Re:Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia Is Turning to Nuclear Power by code_duck on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:35AM (#16628379)
‘Allowed’ by whom? Themselves?
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Re:Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia Is Turning to Nuclear Power by friedButter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:58AM (#16628568)
> given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN

Everyone, as per the comment I replied to

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Re:Oil-Rich Saudi Arabia Is Turning to Nuclear Power by el_cid on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:46AM (#16629006)
Even themselves. Might makes right?
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