real reason for the booms
... U.S. is the only country to have actually used their nuclear weapons. And we think that we are the most honorable and humanitarian government of this group, which is obviously ridiculous. And we are far from the most unstable of the governments to have these weapons so far. Most of these countries are closer to Iraq in mentality than they are to the U.S., yet none of them has ever used nuclear weapons. South Africa, who at the time was a right-wing racist country, even gave their nuclear weapons up and destroyed them. The Soviets, the so-called "Evil Empire," never used theirs and dismantled many of them. When the Soviet Union broke up, most of the weapons that were in the newly independent republics were given back to Russia so that nothing would happen to them and so that they wouldn't get i...