how do you work toward ending nuclear proliferation especially in rogue states? The Israelis did a pretty good job in '81 when they bombed the Baghdad Nuclear reactor (why does an oil rich nation need one? - except to drop on Haifa, Tel Aviv Jerusalem, or New York perhaps) everyone was outraged for a while (openly) but secretly they were happy because the Gulf War would have been quite different otherwise.

Sure the US used the bomb in wwII then again they firebombed Dresden - a lot of it was revenge for a cowardly surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Germans didnt think about sinking civilian merchant ships or bombing civilian cities in England. Those were very different times, and no one understood the effects of Nuclear Weapons. (I went to Hiroshima, and saw the museum - and yet nowhere did the Japanese talk about how they started the war (this is still not taught in schools)) or for that matter the bio-warfare experiments on pows., the sack of Nanking where a 100,000 Chinese were slaughtered. Why should we single out one act of war from history and not even look at in the historical context.