Why does the US have the right to tell other countries not to have nukes?

After all, we have more nukes than any other country in the world except maybe Russia.

OK, so then we say it's OK for only democracies to have nuclear weapons programs, not dictatorships. Even if we consider the US to still be a democracy then, and take an even bigger stretch to consider Putin's Russia still a democracy, what about China? Which has actually threatened to nuke the US, something that no country Bush is whining about has done. But is he pressuring them to stop their nuclear program?

Hey, what about Pakistan? It's a Middle Eastern dictatorship, just like Iraq and Iran. And they have a nuclear weapons program, and a grudge with India, another nuclear power. Yeah, things would get way nasty there. A nuclear war between the 6th most populous and 2nd most populous nations in the world. So is Bush asking the dictator of Pakistan to stop his nuclear program? um, no.

and they have the most power, and they want to keep it that way.

With lots and lots of nukes, the US can march around at NATO and UN meetings and say "I'm better than you!" The whole ability to nuke others is a tactic the United States uses to bully others into submission.

I am so moving to Canada when I turn 18.

international inspections it will have the moral authority to ask others to do the same. Until then we need to mind our own freaking business.

Even before it lost half of them, Russia only had a fraction of the nukes we do. But that misses the point. We should be discouraging other countries from having nukes. We should be discouraging those who have them from making more. We should be doing everything to get rid of them entirely. The problem here is not our attempts to make sure other countries don't get nuclear-weapon technology. The problem is that while we do so, we hypocritically continue to develop our own.