A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted. Niccolo Machiavelli

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If you can't trust your citizens owning an ICBM launch pad with nuclear warheads ready to fire at any time, you've got the wrong citizens. If your government doesn't allow you to own ICBMs, you've got the wrong government.

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this is similar to how we always want to keep iran from having nukes, other countries to etc. If we got nukes why can't they. MAD keeps us from using them but so many countries have them. Russia, china, israel, india, NK possibly. No one has used them since hiroshima. Are cooler heads prevailing? Do they really have them or are they lying to just use them for fear?

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Nukes have evolved. They are now in their 5th and possibly 6th generations now. They are small and low yield, they are unrecognizable from the MAD ones from the 1950s and 1960s.

They also have been used in Yemen and the Ukraine, as well as most likely China and recently in Lebanon.