Pat Buchanan in OnTheIssues Fact Checking

On War & Peace: FactCheck: Nukes do not protect a country from attack

Buchanan asserts in The Death of the West, that "since the atomic age began, no nation with atomic weapons has ever had its homeland invaded or a major war launched upon it. The only nuclear nation ever attacked was Israel, by pin-prick Scud strikes from Iraq." That statement is simply untrue; for example:

Pakistan (atomic weapons since 1998) fought with India (atomic weapons since 1974) in Kashmir, with skirmishes on Siachen Glacier from 1984-1999.
Great Britain (atomic weapons since 1952) claimed they were invaded when Argentina took over the Falklands in 1982.
Israel (atomic weapons since 1979) suffered a major invasion from Syria & Egypt in 1973, and Intifada uprisings ever since.

Those might not be "major wars" but they are certainly more than "pin-pricks" like the Iraqi Scud strikes. Even just looking at 9/11--an attack on the homeland of the United States (atomic weapons since 1945)--belies Buchanan's theory that attaining nukes makes a country immune from attack Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on The Death of the West, p.108 Oct 15, 2002

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