So glad you are not in charge of the 'football'
Bernard M. Orwell, if you truly believe having nukes means you never have to fight another war then you are a sadly deluded fool and I pity you. Ever wondered what would happen if someone started tossing those things around every time they needed to use 'the Big Stick'?
Unfortunately there are still people who do believe Might Makes Right and they can just waltz in and take what they want - take that nice Mr Hussein al Tikriti who had been on Iraqi television boasting how they didn't need to steal American nuclear triggers because they had made their own... funny how nobody mentions that when claiming Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, isn't it?
Maybe you think George Bush Snr should have just lobbed a few tac nukes into Kuwait and Iraq rather than putting in the boots n the ground?
AC because I do remember these things and I know how far some revisionists will go to protect their own little delusions...