It seems to me the point about nuclear electricity is that the hardest substance to get to make nuclear weapons, Plutonium, is a bye product of it.
We do have a non proliferation treaty it is true, but this is of little to no practical use.
It seems that the United states in perfectly sanguine about a unstable failed state like Pakistan having nuclear weapons, and has not had much to say about the fact that it has supplied most of the rest of the Islamic world with the know how to make them, all they need now is the Plutonium.
There is no doubt that most European countries do not want nuclear weapons and have indeed been guaranteed shelter under the American "nuclear umbrella" since practically WWII., but with the world the way it is there is no certainty that this will continue, or that American assurances can be trusted anyway.
Given this scenario if someone in a country near you goes nuclear and thus by definition then acquires a source of Plutonium, then it is prudent for you to follow suit, just in case.
Practical international diplomacy does not allow you to say this of course, you claim its due to a responsible policy of covering all bases in pursuit of energy security, but everybody else knows that this is only partially true.
The tremendous leverage obtained by North Korea not to mention Israel, by their possession of nuclear weapons is not a thing any politician would give up lightly, and the current concerns over energy are a very convenient ploy to join the club by adopting innocent seeming motives, like covering all possibilities in your pursuit of energy security.
The fact that just about every body talking about and instigating nuclear power has guided missiles, and the know how to quickly make practical nuclear warheads for them given the Plutonium, is far from just incidental.
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