should we nuke iraq?

Answer 1

Depending on the kiloton yield, the outcry would be numbing. 500 kiloton strategic nukes would have global suicide implications, while tactical nukes will have regional implications.

Strategic nukes, at least a dozen of them in the 500 kiloton range would take out the middle east and vaporize around 190 million (3% of the world). Another 200 million in nearby countries would die from radioactive poisoning, and their only crime would be living next door to the Middle East.

Carl Sagan estimated a very low threshold for nuclear winter, a 100 megaton blast would ignite fires that would cause a nuclear winter....ie, the sun would be blotted out due to the dust and ash from the fires and all plant life would cease to exist....followed shortly thereafter by animal life.

So the option of eliminating the middle east by nukes is global suicide....which is why nukes have been a deterrent to total war for the past 60 years

Answer 2

we should not nuke anyone. It does sound like a good thing to do at times but in reality deploying nukes would be a global disaster. if we did there would be retaliation from somewhere and there starts the beginning of the end. look into nuclear warfare and you may have a different outlook after you understand the effect you and your loved ones were up against.

Answer 3

why should we nuke iraq?
Im sorry I see no relevance in your question, maybe you should get a brain and explain us why you think that?

And Nuking Iraq would prove only one thing, that we are no better than the terrorists who kill innocent people for no reason. We are better than that, we protect the innocent, not go kill them.

Answer 4

as long as we want the following to happen, we should nuke iraq:

1. the U.N. puts such harsh sanctions on us that our economy collapses.
2. every other nuclear power on earth nukes back.
3. all of us die.
4. we go down in history as the most evil nation in the history of the world, worse than Nazi Germany, Hirohito's Japan, Soviet Russia, and Communist Vietnam combined.

Answer 5

No...have we not learned anything from hiroshima? We can't go around blowing up countries...we do that and it'll be the end of the world..one country after the next will fire off before being fired at.

Answer 6

Noooooooooooo

Answer 7

Hell no! Killing innocent people by the millions is something that many of the fundamentalists and jihadists that we are fighting dream of accomplishing. We as a nation should never stoop to that level of killing millions of innocent people.