Any two bit dictator state that feels like it may be/is threatened by the United States IS going to pursue nuclear weapons as long as they have the money/means. Because they all recognize by now that their conventional military will be nothing but a speed bump to the US military. It is just a fact of life and something that will have (and has been) to enter into the calculus of national security.
You can say that WMD triggered Saddam's fall, but I think that was preordained and had little to do with WMD. Look at North Korea. The world saw them test a bomb for all to see. And what did they get? Carrots, not sticks.
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