DougR, the people who are hallucinating may be the ones who believe that North Korea or Iraq or any other country would not hesitate to hit a nuclear-capable country. Of course they would hesitate. It is what the entire cold war was predicated upon.

Any small country that sends a nuclear weapon against the US KNOWS that it would be hit back, promptly, decisively, and with less bomb slop-over damage on surrounding countries than itself is capable of. So only a madman who knows his power grip is irretrievably loosened would hit first, in order to take down everyone else with him. North Korea has not been suspected of such nefarious plans.

I've got to say- As closely as Hussein has been monitored the last five years, harassed by air in an enemy-set no fly zone, and all our intelligence gathering by satellite, I don't see how he would go about developing and amassing nuclear weaponry. Unless he has found a way to do without the distinctive nuclear reactors?