> We don't have pocket nukes,

What do you call the Davy Crockett warheads like the W54 ? The 0.3 kiloton low yield B61-12 ? The Chagai-I boosted fission warheads demonstrated by Pakistan in 1998 ?

> and there's very little risk of random countries acquiring their own due to the amount of work involved.

And yet North Korea, Isreal and Pakistan got there ... and India speed ran five tests in 1998 that caught the US completely by surprise.

North Korea got it with help from China, Israel got it with help from France. They didn't do it on their own.