Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Japan -- a staunch U.S. ally -- stood by its decision to back the war because Iraq still posed a threat because it had previously been developingsuchweapons and it was not clear whether it had abandoned those programs.
Unfortunately, the evidence strongly suggests that suchdeveloping nations are deciding to become nuclear weapons states for reasons that have nothing to do with the status of the U.S. testing program.