[general1465]

Whole Budapest Memorandum and subsequent unwillingness to act as signed sealed the deal to never give up nuclear weapons for nations which got them and also opened other nations to finding a way how to make or get control over their own nuclear weapons - like Poland, Japan or Germany.

Only the threat of glassing a capital city of an aggressor will keep an aggressor at bay.

[SpicyUme]

It is a shame, that thought started in my mind with the invasion of Crimea. France came out looking pretty smart for their policy of entirely homegrown nuclear programs.