When discussing needing nuclear weapons as a deterrent our media generally never mentions Brazil

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/jose-alencar-brazil-vp-sa_n_300187.html

Jose Alencar, Brazil VP, Says Country Should Build Nuclear Arms

MARCO SIBAJA 09/25/09 12:13 PM ET

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's vice president says in an interview published Friday that his country should develop nuclear weapons. Other officials stressed that his comments were not government policy.

Jose Alencar, who also served as defense minister from 2004 to 2006, said in an interview with journalists from several Brazilian news media that his country does not have a program to develop nuclear weapons, but should: "We have to advance on that."

"The nuclear weapon, used as an instrument of deterrence, is of great importance for a country that has 15,000 kilometers of border to the west and a territorial sea" where oil reserves have been found, Alencar said.

Alencar aide Adriano Silva confirmed the comments published by newspapers including O Globo and O Estado de Sao Paulo. But he said they were personal opinions and not a position of the government.