anyone can think of such an instance, please speak up. Libya. Muhammar Ghaddafi abandoned his nuclear weapons program because he was afraid of getting Saddamed by the US. I am scratching my head and trying to recall a single instance in history in which a country abandoned arming itself because threatened with attack if it did not leave itself vulnerable to attack. If anyone can think of such an instance, please speak up. Libya. Muhammar Ghaddafi abandoned his nuclear weapons program because he was afraid of getting Saddamed by the US. 03/02/2012 - 12:20pm EDT | malahat "...The cache of nuclear technology that Libya turned over to the United States, Britain and international nuclear inspectors in early 2004 was large -- far larger than American intelligence experts had expected. There were more than 4,000 centrifuges for producing enriched uranium. There were blueprints for how to build a nuclear bomb -- missing some critical components but good enough to get the work started...." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/\\... "...The cache of nuclear technology that Libya turned over to the United States, Britain and international nuclear inspectors in early 2004 was large -- far larger than American intelligence experts had expected. There were more than 4,000 centrifuges for producing enriched uranium. There were blueprints for how to build a nuclear bomb -- missing some critical components but good enough to get the work started...." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/\\... 03/02/2012 - 12:22pm EDT | malahat Sorry, the first paragraph of my 12:18pm EDT post was a quote from Roi's 12:14