Bogeymen are what keep us underlings servile. Are the Americans disarming? The Brits? France? Brazil?
You read too much tabloid news.Iran isn't building a reactor. It is building a nuclear bomb.
Iran isn't building a reactor. It is building a nuclear bomb.
Russia recently moved a few divisions to Siberia, near the Chinese Border. Their Military sucks, everything is out of date, but Nukes are cheap.
Russia’s biggest fear is China. For the last decade a substantial number of illegal Chinese have crossed the Chinese border to work, smuggle etc.
Russia is nervous about ethnic strife, along with a much stronger Chinese Military. And many areas of the Russian far east were Chinese at one time.
Add in Russian paranoia, loss of Empire, what they consider to be their security sphere and the cheapest was to go is with Nukes.