Better avoid it getting infected have it removed . The chances of infection are low , considering it ' s a metal , not an organic substance , but why risk it ? <| sep |> Every army is built to fight the nation ' s enemies . For the Baltic states that means fighting Russia . They use NATO with all it ' s American might . There is only one way for them to credibly replace that alliance and that is nuclear weapons on a hair trigger ready to be launched the moment Estonia , Latvia , or Lithuania can ' t be defended anymore by conventional means . That will be an entirely new layer of MAD . For the rest of Europe we must ask where the nuclear umbrella can come from . Either France builds a lot of new bombs and promises to use them for our defense , or even more nations start a bomb project . It can ' t ge any other way after NATO . That non proliferation and quiet is way NATO bought the USA , once they stop paying we in Europe will develop a new arsenal with WMD .