Well, big brothers have their own WMD. They have it. They want to keep it because they are neither irresponsible nor rouge. But history posts a different story. During the cold war, WMD in fact, was touted as a strategic weapon intended to target cities (not military installations only) when conventional defense was untenable. In fact, it was used! Sadly, Enola Gay is in display in the Smithsonian without a proper accounting of all that transpired. Furthermore, a smaller scale tactical nuclear weapon seems to be on horizon ... I , therefore, see no reason why an economist like Monmohan or a man like Zardari shall behave less responsibly (after all, they both are South-Asian by birth and share a common culture). I, however, do not condone a nuclear of South Asia not because that they shall behave like a war-time-US-president in some future day, but because of the enormous diversion of limited national resources to some utterly useless MAD-project while their own people remain half-fed, half-educated and half-sheltered! A nation that cannot defend its citizenry from poverty and hunger needs no defense (and definitely no nuclear bombs). On a concocted issue of WMD, the year 2003 witnessed some of the worst sufferings of humankind. Unbridled hubris and excessive destructive power has taken a toll on international order. In a subtler way it also has affected each and every living inhabitants of this planet. WMD was not plentiful in Iraq, but makeshift bombs and small guns definitely were there! Death and destruction continues unabated. Merchants of guns, despite their high sounding preaching of “sound-bite-size-morality”, indeed, are the merchants of death. As Irene Khan, previously of Amnesty International once stated that there is an enormous redundancy of heart-piercing bullets in today's earth. If one wishes one can still every ticking human heart and there would not be any dearth of bullets. A Rwandan is afraid more of machetes and rifles. A Bangladeshi is more afraid of guns, goons and fires. A Gujrati is not afraid of a Pakistani Ghouri, but definitely of trishuls, guns and goons. Small weapons, in no way, are less massive than the much-publicized weapons of mass destruction. The more weapons we acquire, the more vulnerable we become! The developing world spends a pathetic twenty billion US dollars to buy more and more weapons, while only half of that money can cure them of illiteracy. It’s like a saw that cuts both ways. It siphons away the scant resources as it is acquired. Once acquired, it can get in nefarious hands thus causing further harm. Thus for the poorer countries like nuclear/chemical/biological weapons really does not matter. WMD for them equals to plentiful of guns on goon’s hands! Does the gun-trading, gun-touting big brothers care?