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Explain Like I'm Five

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ELI5 How come the US goes after people who can enrich Uranium? If I had a country and smart people to build one but was just build energies why does the US have to intervene ie Iran.? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They want a monopoly on Force. Simple as that. They want to be able to enforce their will upon countries and nuclear weapons would stop them from doing that. That's the entire reason.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, they're about 75 years too late for a monopoly.