Yes countries are people and to secure their existence nuclear option should be perused. This was much better written here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191788
replyIt’s amazing to me that you truly think that terrorists having nuclear weapons will make the world safer.
replyTerrorists already have nuclear weapons. Of course no country having nukes is ideal, but in absence of that possibility everyone having them is better, unless your reasoning is "I hope my side has them and the other side doesn't."
replyOf course that that’s my reasoning. You don’t start war out of a presumption of power equality. Wars are won by a power imbalance.
replyWhen someone is attacking me obviously I want the bigger and stronger weapon.