Tracy
If France has nukes, but people believe France will not use them unless attacked, France is therefore not regarded as a "threat to the world" just because it has nukes it might use.
Consider what you are saying re SH not wanting to use WMD, for whatever reason, and restate the above:
"If SH has WMD, but people believe he will not use them even when attacked by people who openly state their intention to undo him..."
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
