[ganafagol]

> Also, the more countries that have nukes the better, since it levels the playground.

That's the American "best thing against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" attitude. Empirically this does not hold true. With the density of lethal weapons in the U.S. and the statistically lower safety from gun violence compared to other developed countries, it's safe to assume that the world would be a safer place with a reduced number of countries having nukes (or ideally none of them) rather than an increased number.

[fennecfoxen]

I'm not sure that it's safe to assume that the dynamics of international relations among nuclear and nonnuclear states can be so tidily extrapolated from the dynamics of society and interpersonal relations among gun-owning and non-gun-owning humans acting in their individual capacities.

[ganafagol]

Maybe not. But it's at least an attempt to a somewhat informed hypothesis, which a simple statement like "since it levels the playground" definitely is not.

[fennecfoxen]

true