But, why is it OK for the US to have any weapons it wants and at the same time we dictate to all other countries what they can and cannot do?
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Because we were the first to steal all the Nazi intelligence, put them in Los Alamos, and was the first to build it............the World at that time was a different place........America lived in a different context and a different role...............now, 60 years later, we all discover it is more than we bargained for............and if placed in the wrong hands...........well........you know.