Speaking of Iraq...who can blame any country for wanting nukes after that debacle? America went after a country on false pretenses exactly because they 1) were in an area where we wanted to be able to start "spreading Democracy" and needed bases and 2) didn't have anything scary to throw at us. We killed hundreds of thousands of people, helped start a new wave of terrorism, and destabilized the entire region...over blatant lies and pitiful justifications. If you are a country in such a place that we might covet, our track record is of aggression for no good reason, so of course you want to defend yourself. The only defense against America is nukes, or to be large enough (China) that even a conventional war makes everyone lose economically.