Now whether it’s in the US interest for Pakistan or North Korea to have nuclear weapons is another issue.
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The US has always tried to limit the number of nations that have nuclear weapons. Early Cold war they made a deal with Canada that in return for not building our own they would loan us some of theirs but of course they came complete with their own entourage of US military police.
Not long after I first arrived in Germany circa early 1966 my infantry platoon spent a week providing outer security/quick reaction for the storage site for the warheads. The last ones were the AIR-2 Genie air to air missile carried by the VooDoo that we still had when I started aircrew training in 1970. Somewhat interestingly there was a nuclear depth charge that the Sea King was equipped to carry on one of our stores mounts. We trained dry on the procedure but quickly realized in the simulator that dropping it was not survivable for the aircraft or crew. Seriously they told us to track the sub, then cut the sonar cable drop the thing and climb like hell … according to two of my pilots the math didn’t work! We didn’t actually have the nuclear depth charges but were assured they would be available when needed! There was a place to store them on the ship.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_weapons_of_mass_des…