Derb, surely you jest! Part of the rationale for taking on the states that harbor terrorists and the states that do business with terrorists was to attempt to interrupt a future in which a suitcase nuclear bomb might be detonated by Al Qaeda or another group in Times Square or the Mall of America or some such. The Bush Doctrine is based on preventing just such an occurrence: “If we wait for threats to fully materialize,” as the president said, “we will have waited too long.” World politics is riven on the question of what to do about Iran and North Korea. I don’t think this country or its people haven’t been thinking enough about nukes. It’s just that dealing with the question is so fiendishly difficult, and nobody has an answer to the question: How do you disarm a nation that already has nukes? That was why even the possibility of Saddam Hussein achieving a nuclear device at some point during the decade was considered justification enough for invasion and overthrow.