Yes countries are people and to secure their existence nuclear option should be perused. This was much better written here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191788

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halflife 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s amazing to me that you truly think that terrorists having nuclear weapons will make the world safer.

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ta8903 an hour ago | parent [-]

Terrorists already have nuclear weapons. Of course no country having nukes is ideal, but in absence of that possibility everyone having them is better, unless your reasoning is "I hope my side has them and the other side doesn't."

	▲	halflife 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Of course that that’s my reasoning. You don’t start war out of a presumption of power equality. Wars are won by a power imbalance. When someone is attacking me obviously I want the bigger and stronger weapon.