If US allies were to develope Nuclear weapons

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Stumps

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This question is theoretical so I don't want any BS posts or Flames.

If countries like Australia and Japan etc that don't have any nuclear weapons programs, were to develope Nuclear weapons would the US be opposed and threaten military action like it does to non allied countries like Iran and North Korea, or would it support these countries, I'm curious to find out what the US would do.

any ideas?
 
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are any of the countries you named controlled by a crack-pot dictator who has no care for the greater populace?
 
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eigen

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They all do.I cant really think of any of our allies that dont have them.
 
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Stumps

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Originally posted by: eigen
They all do.I cant really think of any of our allies that dont have them.
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Australia stopped it's nuclear weapons program back in the early 60's when we stopped the british from testing on our soil, so we have no nuclear weapons..or much of a defence force come to think of it.
 
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Velk

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Australia doesn't. I'd be surprised if Japan did either - it would be kind of hard to justify under the restrictions they copped after world war 2.

On the other hand, Australia is one of the world's largest uranium exporters, so if the government did start a nuclear weapons program, the USA would probably be annoyed at the drop in supply.
 
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Dragnov

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Yes, the US would be highly opposed, primarily in East Asia (Japan/Korea/Taiwan).

Theres also the non-proliferation treaty that must be taken into account.
 
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LordMorpheus

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All of our allies that matter have nukes.

About P&N people being morons . . .

I'm fairly certain that the OT crowd isn't much smarter than they are . . . . . I'd say in OT you find the happy, silly drunk, and in P&N you find the violent, paranoid drunk.

That doesn't make the OT crowd any more sober, though.
 
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EyeMWing

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I can't think of a single ally other than Japan that doesn't have them (courtesy of us)

And Japan isn't allowed to have them - period.
 
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I think all of our allies either have nukes, or know that if it came to it, they could count on ours.
 
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sundev

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I'm pretty sure nearly all countries have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That means they agree not to develop or proliferate nukes. So just the countries that already have them can keep em. For U.S. Allies this is just France and Great Britain.

Countries that haven't signed the treaty and thus are developing nukes are Indian and Pakistan. Israel also didn't sign, but doesn't officially possess nukes, but unofficially does (I think some scientist leaked the secret?).

Anyways, to answer the question... the U.S. would not officially support an ally developing nuclear weapons.
 
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maddogchen

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Taiwan tried to create nukes in the 1970s but the US shut it down.

The US also does crap like limit the range of missiles that South Korea can use. So like North Korea can hit Japan but South Korea can't even hit the mountains on the border of N. Korea and China. Or selling fighter planes or tanks but without the top of the line weapons systems or radar.
 
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