America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.

I have neither been there nor done that

I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.