Forum Lurker,

We have lived with thousands of nuclear warheads and first, second and third strike delivery systems that could deliver those warheads anywhere in the world for the best part of fifty years.

If you are trying to infer that the US is "an aggressive, militant country" then the description based on their track record just does not hold water. The US has been involved in a number of conflict situations since the end of World War II - not once has it resorted to the use of nuclear weapons.

Saddam Hussein on the other hand has used what WMD he possessed in the past - if he had had nuclear weapons I have no doubt in my mind that he would have used them.