Not just because nuclear weapons actually exist, and that even if we got rid of ours there would never be any guarantees that our enemies would get rid of theirs, but also because the deterrent effect of nuclear arsenals has kept the world a relatively safer place since their inception.

A nuclear-free world would be a disastrous place where millions of people would be slaughtered by wars.

Let us review the record:

August will mark the 64th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs in Japan to end World War II.

Those bombs saved up to 1 million American soldiers who did not have to fight in hundreds of Iwo Jima battles to subdue Japan.

In the 64 years since those bombs did their job, there have been no world wars. The horror unleashed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki provided a sobering lesson to the world.

For better or worse, nuclear weapons exist.  At this point in the game, there’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube as Obama seems to think we can do.  So since they exist, we have got to keep ours because we can never be sure our enemies will be getting rid of theirs.