Here’s one easily understandable reason we’re interested in nuclear proliferation in those countries it’s the complex truth in Ashton Carter’s comment to Sam Nunn.
“A nuclear custodial system is only as stable as the social system in which it is embedded. And it’s really made up of people and institutions and so forth, not just gizmos. When all of that is in middle of a social revolution, you’ve got big trouble.”
- pg 385 The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
By the way, he was talking about Russia in the crazy 80s.