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FF - you're reinterpreting my post in a way it wasn't intended - strictly US-centric. There are 10 nuclear-armed states that I can think of off the top of my head (US, UK, France, Russia, Ukraine, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel). Of those I count 3 that have had some sort of violent conflicts in the last 40 years (i.e. living memory) that had nothing to do with the US (China vs. India, India vs. Pakistan, Russia vs. China).
Again, the threat of a nuclear holocaust with no US involvement has been on the table for decades. The public chose to ignore it in the post-Cold War era, but it remained nonetheless.
Perhaps the military-industrial complex has the hold on the government pocketbook you allege, but I see no evidence of it, especially when it comes to nuclear weapons, etc. No, if anything, it is the conventional weapons manufacturers that have cornered the DC market.
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