In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been turbo-charged by Donald Trump’s tough treatment of traditional U.S. allies, which has some in Tokyo and Seoul calling for a reassessment of their non-nuclear policies.

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    I wish but… Do you think they won’t invade us at the whiff of nuclear armament?

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      3 months ago

      I don’t trust them not to invade us without that protection, anyways.

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        Agreed. I just think that would make it certain.

        If we could get nukes secretly I’d be all up for it.

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          If Japan and South Korea go through with this perhaps we could purchase some from them (or elsewhere, UK, France, hell, even China) to cover us while we work on a domestic program.

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            Buy a loaded submarine on the hush-hush and sail it to Vancouver? I like it.

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      Building nukes is like unionizing; ideally you don’t go public until you already have your nukes/union

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        Gonna be tough to hide when all our computer systems run on Microsoft, Google, or Amazon platforms.

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        Realistically, I can’t see a situation where the UK wouldn’t agree to sell to Canada if Canada felt it was needed.

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        I don’t think we could realistically hide it from their agents but yeah, totally. That’ll probably be the way if our gov’t decides to do it.