Give the racism a break quack, no one believes it but you.
While the Soviets posessed thousands of nuclear warheads, as did we, they had full diplomatic relations with the West. The Soviets were not hell bent on conquest, warfare or domination if the result would have been their destruction. There were checks and balances to the power they had and wielded and a genuine respect if not fear of their would be opponents. Plus, the recent memory of losing 30 million citizens in the Great Patriotic War chilled them to the bone when they realized what a nuclear capable adversary would inflict on their nation.
"Less capable" WMD's is an oxymoron. You're just as dead from a 6 kiloton yield as you are from a 5 megaton yield. Either has the ability to end tens of thousands of lives and in the case of the latter, millions. Hydrogen bombs though are not easy to make, atomic bombs, by comparison, are. Weaponized chemical agents really are not high tech. The technology has been known since the first World War. As a result a few hundred gallons of a chemical or biological agent in a pod on any supersonic capable aircraft may inflict as much of a human toll as a small yield nuclear weapon.
No one ever thought the Soviets would spray West Berlin with such agents, Austria, West Germany, Italy, Turkey or Greece. There is little evidence to support that an Arab state wouldn't unleash such terror or attacks given the fact that they've tried to destroy Israel three times, support directly or indirectly terrorist organizations, have made war on one another and their own people and are in direct conflict with Jews, Christians and Hindus in various regional conflicts.
It's the threat of demonstrated zeal to wage war with neighboring states, prior use of WMD's and lack of political checks and balances that scares people. The analogy is this; do you fear a cop in a Krispy Kreme armed with a 10MM sidearm or the crazy drunk with a broken bottle coming to you and swearing at the ground as he walks. The cop has the better weapon, the drunk is more likely to use his.