withen the next 10 years ,could a nuclear device be used in the middle east?

Question

also does any government set the rules for use of such weapons ,as there is so much of the radiation poison to go around.and ?,who would be justified in official use of such weapon..Is it possoble for a country for any reason to ever use such a bomb.?

Answer 1

Iran and Korea are a special risk as most countries realise nuclear id the last possible option but both these governments are mentally unstable enough to use them even if it meant they would be totally destroyed.

Nuclear weapons sadly are now usable. Theater nukes are fired from artillery pieces over quite short distances. At sea nuclear mines are very usable.

Even large nuclear weapons leave far less fall out than they used to. The Neutron Bomb developed by the US givers an intense blast of radiation without a very big explosion and thus gives very little property damage. What it does do is kill everyone or make them seriously and terminally sick within several miles radius.

Nuclear weapons have always been usable but they have, thankfully, always been in the hands of nations that would do almost anything not to use them. The danger now is that there are nations out there close to obtaining nuclear weapons that might not think twice about using them.

Answer 2

Robert McNamara's opinion is that in the next 10 years the chance of a nuclear weapon being used is 50-50. He was in the Kennedy administration back in the sixties. Robert was basically in charge of the Vietnam fiasco and I guess he has decided to offer something constructive to humanity late in life. In my opinion I think it is inevitable that this will happen, more than likely in the middle east thanks to the United States making matters worse by attacking a defenseless country for profit which further alienates the west. The only country to use nuclear weapons in anger is the United States,Hmmmm who would have imagined.

Answer 3

Israel has had a stock of nuclear weapons since the 1950s. There are rules for the use of atomic devices, although Israel has not signed the non-proliferation treaty and officially claim not to be a nuclear power.
It is unlikely that they would be prepared to use such weapons without the consent of the US, who are themselves highly unlikely to endorse that due to their economic interests in the region.

Answer 4

maybe the next 10 months or 10 weeks or 10 days or 10 minutes. Place your bets people.

Iran has them by now, or will soon, which means hezbolah has access or will soon-

Israel is fed up and has had them for half a century - pre-emptive strike is probably the only chance they have for survival

Answer 5

How about the next 10 days or weeks? Have you seen what's going on over there right now? They're all a bunch of nuts over there and will be happy to die in a nuclear (pronounced nuke-you-lar) firestorm so they can go spend paradise with Allah.

Answer 6

who would use the Nukes? Palestines? Israelies? or Mid East countries? They would only destroy them selves! Lets not think of that! Why are we always discussing of WAR? Lets talk how we make a BETTER PLACE for the entire human race!

Answer 7

Good old uncle sam is the only one to have used a nuclear bomb to intentionally take life

Answer 8

There will be a nuclear device detonated in the Middle East within 5 years....unfortunately.

Answer 9

I don't think any M/E countries have the bomb yet, except Pakistan, but they are aiming theirs south.

As far as justification? Touchy subject there. I'll leave it at that.

Answer 10

Don't they already have the technology, if not the components?

It's quite a worry; could WW3 come from a middle east confrontation?


JJ.