Once 1 country has them, other countries feel the need to have them since they know nothing can defend against a nuclear bomb, except another nuclear deterent, dominoe effect.
EXACTLY! I just don't understand our insistance on owning them! It doesn't make any sense. And By the way, OSF, I read Johnny Got His Gun.
Atom bombs are about because everyone else has them. Simple stuff, if one nation gets rid of its arsenal then all the others will gang up on it. Also an atom bomb is probably the best way to stop an asteriod, justifying the possesion of a few hundred warheads