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Phil Brennan suggests that Brazil may be on its way to having a nuclear program, but his only evidence seems to be Brazil's denials on the point and the fact that Lula da Silva has communist sympathies. This "no means yes" business we've seen before (wasn't this the backbone of our intelligence in Iraq?), but the equation of communism with nuclear proliferation is totally unfair. Brazil is far from a communist country - at the moment its policies are moving to the left, but only through the process of democratic election (and because neoliberalism is broken). But suppose for a minute that this paranoid view of Brazil as the foundation of a new communist bloc is correct. There's only one reason a Latin American country would need nuclear weapons: to defend against US aggression.