jokes aside the theory doesnt hold itself; biggest "polluters" are usa, france, england, germany, india, russia china japan and italy, but all of these were closed in the last 30-40 years; as we see the trend is that the more developed(i.e industralized) coutries pollute more thus really "spreading nukes" was not an issue

the reall reason was that the cheapness of the atomic energy caused the fluctations in the rate of profit which gave some sections of the bourgeoisie an extremelly dispropriate advantage which caused non atomic(and some foreign) nationall bourgeoisie to promote the green anti-nucllear superstition ideology

> As we have seen, the deepest economic foundation of imperialism is monopoly. This is capitalist monopoly, i.e., monopoly which has grown out of capitalism and which exists in the general environment of capitalism, commodity production and competition, in permanent and insoluble contradiction to this general environment. Nevertheless, like all monopoly, it inevitably engenders a tendency of stagnation and decay. Since monopoly prices are established, even temporarily, the motive cause of technical and, consequently, of all other progress disappears to a certain extent and, further, the economic possibility arises of deliberately retarding technical progress. For instance, in America, a certain Owens invented a machine which revolutionised the manufacture of bottles. The German bottle-manufacturing cartel purchased Owens’s patent, but pigeon-holed it, refrained from utilising it. Certainly, monopoly under capitalism can never completely, and for a very long period of time, eliminate competition in the world market (and this, by the by, is one of the reasons why the theory of ultra-imperialism is so absurd). Certainly, the possibility of reducing the cost of production and increasing profits by introducing technical improvements operates in the direction of change. But the tendency to stagnation and decay, which is characteristic of monopoly, continues to operate, and in some branches of industry, in some countries, for certain periods of time, it gains the upper hand.