Up In Arms

The United States of America promotes all countries to be independent as a nation and self sustaining. Just looking back at our own history, for the most part, we as citizens of this country have demonstrated these ideals can hold true. But I become a little confused when we decide to tell the world who can and can't research and develop nuclear energy. It goes without saying that the leader of Iran has a few screws loose, but who are we to put the stoppers on what they as a sovereign nation decide to do ... nobody stepped in to stop us when we were developing such technology. Is it nothing more than the boys in Washington fear competition? I mean, it would be much more difficult to bully the world if they had the same toys we do.