You did not know that the US and Russia have been slowly disarming our respective nuclear weapons stocks since the collapse of the Soviet Union ? And people say Americans are ignorant...
But there is a greater goal here. Disarmament by one or some does not mean others should build up theirs. When I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, I was on rotating Victor Alert duty.
http://www.acc.af.mil/News/Features...-years-past-20th-fw-role-in-victor-alert.aspx
VA status is when a bunch of jets are loaded with nukes, readied to take off in less than one hr, and often time must be less than 15 minutes.
You brought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That is the closest you will ever come to being with a nuke. You are separated by physical distance and time. On the other hand, I, and many other Americans in the US military, were, and still are, separated by only one event -- that of a nuclear detonation. It is one thing to look at the before and after photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is quite another to have actually touched the thing that could produce such devastation.
Some of us are nonchalance about being around nuclear weapons. Probably some were just putting on tough faces. But you are talking to one person --
ME -- who was and still is thoughtful about the thing and its effects on humanity.
YOU are careless about nuclear weapons. I am not.