So why not Iran too and every other tin horn dictatorship?
In a deceptively fawning article in Newsweek, A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistan bomb, embraces classic Orwellian doublespeak starting right out with the title, “I Saved My Country From Nuclear Blackmail.” Immediately there follows the boot-licking subtitle, “The ‘father’ of the Pakistani bomb on why we shouldn’t be afraid.” Khan then praises the concept of mutually assured destruction (Hello, that did not make for a very safe world, A.Q.) and trots out the usual lame excuses: Somebody else started it (India); It makes Pakistan safe from aggression (no mention of the consequences of failure); Pakistan looks forward to a peaceful world (Does anybody ever say otherwise? I mean, even we call it the Department of Defense).
Conspicuously absent is any mention of the dangers of nuclear proliferation, of the dangers of having every similarly inclined tin horn dictatorship (like North Korea, like Iran, like…) claim the military high ground of nuclear weapons is a moral high ground as well, of the dangers of them actually using those weapons, and the dangers of miserably governed, politically unstable governments (think Pakistan, think Iran, think North Korea) failing and letting the nuclear weapons (and more likely, the nuclear material for use in dirty bombs) get into the hands of terrorists.
A.Q. Khan does offer one bright insight (if not the one he intended): “For a country that couldn’t produce bicycle chains to have become a nuclear and missile power within a short span … was quite a feat.” Perhaps if you had put your brainpower into developing an economy that could figure out how to produce bicycle chains you would have done your country and the world the greater favor.