yeah - we said the same things about the Russians, and the Chinese and the Indians and the Pakistanis - only the French & realists seem to be suitable owners...............................
and the Israelis................
Let them have a bomb because they already figured out what happens if they ever use or hand to a 3rd party.
The wish to have it as a deterrent.................after all doesn't ever nuclear power say that the reason they have it is to be as a deterred.
That is unless the politicians were lying ..........................OMG
