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CMV: It's extremely hypocritical and ineffective for the U.S. to try and denuclearize other countries without taking the same steps.

Im an American born and raised, but I have a lot to learn. One thing that I've come to terms with is that sine the U.S. is already such a world power, and has already sent the message of nuclear destruction, it is usless for us to take the "Do as I day and not as I do" approach. 

In this day and age when it comes down to foreign affairs, most countries put the majority of their budget towards military funding. Instead of trying to isolate others for their production of nuclear weapons, we should be deescalating the situation.

I know it doesn't take much for other countries to breach agreements and turn their nose up to sanctions while developing nukes in secrecy, but wouldn't this be some of the first steps to world denuclearization. That's the goal right? Or does the U.S. just want to be the only dealer at the table?
gpt
Can you think of any point in history where humankind set down a weapon for any reason other than the discovery of a better one?

We're never going to have a world without nuclear weapons unless we use all of them.  Hoping for anything else is pointless.  Our only hope is to constrain their use - particularly by those countries with the least to lose.  One way you do that is with sanctions or incentives, another way is military action.

The most effective way you do it is by ensuring that the use of nuclear weapons has no upside - and you do that with deterrence.  You make sure that at least one stable country with nothing to gain from nuking anyone nevertheless holds the power to destroy your country and everything in it if you break that one taboo.

>Or does the U.S. just want to be the only dealer at the table?

I presume you're aware that we're not the only country with nuclear weapons?  That one reason we have so many is that another country in a broadly similar strategic position also has quite a few and would possess the capacity to dominate the world if we unilaterally disarmed?

Put another way: if the US unilaterally disarmed, China would drop everything to build enough nuclear weapons to deter Russia on its own and there would be a new Cold War.  This time, the countries involved would share a disputed border.