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> you can't actually go from 0 to nuclear sovereignty in 6 months, and you definitely can't hide that you're doing it for long

No, but you can go from 0 to "possibly nuclear everyone yell about it," and stay there until you're actually nuclear.

Nobody will do anything about possibly nuclear. And nobody will do anything once you're nuclear. This was the critical hole in non-proliferation, and for a while it worked, because everyone pretended nuclear sovereignty wasn't a thing, but now that it is there is--and should be--a race to who are the regional powers, and who are subsurvient to them. The Netherlands have a history of being conquered and being rich. It makes sense for them to be a nuclear sovereign.




> This was the critical hole in non-proliferation, and for a while it worked

Fair, but I imagine everyone learned from that, too.

> The Netherlands have a history of being conquered and being rich. It makes sense for them to be a nuclear sovereign.

Arguably, it makes sense for every country to be one, if they could pull it off, but so far it seems they're sufficiently deterred from trying.




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