defense isnt about building the nuke, its about preventing it. (in theory, anyway)
and, just 'bout any country in the middle east hates us, even the ones we're quasi-defending. there are some very angry muslim or militant groupings that are just waiting to attack us in some fashion; military strike or smnall acts of terrorism
add in some of the smaller used-to-be-russia "countries," and we're in not too friendly territory, quite often.
then, there's the fact that we just found out that india has nuclear technology, only within the past 2 years or so.
dats not good.
