Why not just nuke the whole Middle East?

Question

It seems to me that if we take out that region, we will just have peace.

Answer 1

The use of Nukes by Israel or any other country in the region will have devastating effects.

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 kiloton 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

Nuke The Middle East

Answer 3

And that makes us what? Murderers. You can not eliminate a whole region of people and have peace, there will always be wars and rumors of wars, read your Holy Bible KJV. Seriously though, if we took out the Middle East, and there were problems in any other country, should be take them out too? Once you start eliminating a dissenting region, there will be another dissenter, and another and another, if all are nuked, soon there will be no world as we know it. NUKES really mess up the earth for quite a while, soon there would be no place to produce food, no air to breathe, no humans as we know them, and a whole lot of cockroaches, because they are invincible to NUKES and microwaves. So would you like to cause the mass destruction of our planet by nuking the Middle East? I don't think so. God Bless, Martha S.

Answer 4

First of all, there are many people in the middle east who are NOT the problem. Besides, a great deal of the world's oil is in the middle east and a nuclear weapon would destroy the infrastructure for pumping the oil and also pollute the air with oil smoke and fumes in addition to radioactive fallout.
A much better process would be to engineer a deadly virus, give the vaccine to all of our friends, and then release the virus. Or if they ever perfected the Neutron bomb, you could drop a few of those. I understand the idea of the Neutron bomb was to just kill the people but not harm the hardware and leave no radioactive residue.

Answer 5

US cant, not because US is the GOOD GUYS, but if you do that UN will not shut up, but france, england, and etc every country in the world will attack US, and u will say y not nuke all rt, well then US will enter economic crisis, its going to be the second great depression, and all will be starved and get radiated.

also what does middle east have??? yes OIL u want that one dont u??? and whats oil called??? oh ya black gold, its valuable, and if you nuke it then it will be hazard... dont want that!!

nuke= illegal, use it = die

Answer 6

if we were to take out the whole middle east, sure we would annihilate our enemies, but many innocent people would die, we would lose just about every UN ally, and it would not create peace. it would probably stir up so much animosity between us and other nations that they would have to arm themselves up to protect themselves from the "crazy americans" and we'd have to find a reason to disarm them leading to another war which equals: NO PEACE. also our government would be no better than saddam's old regime, plus; where would we get our oil? without the middle east's oil supply, the US would suffer a harsh economic decline, so we got to protect the oil, point blank. hope those reasons were good enough.

Answer 7

Look can we not blow this out of porportion. Three men are responsible for september 11th. Khalid Shiek Mohameed (the planner),and Ayman-Al Zawahiri as well as Usama Bin Laden.
These Three alone should be killed only (or put in life imprisonment depending on your views, mine are the sooner).
A nuke is a little extreme to kill three religous nuts.

Answer 8

Don't you just love an intelligent question!
and Mayleigh, us British, never had any desire to nuke the Irish (most of us having some Irish ancestors anyway). We just rather resented being bombed by terrorists - not an unreasonable feeling, I believe.

Answer 9

Most people will say you are dillusional or hateful, however most people have thought of that from time to time. My thoughts are maybe not the whole Middle East, just parts of it. Sunni Triangle, Iranian presidents living quarters, Syria, Somalia, and other factions that are not worth the lives of our soldiers. I know this is brutal. But maybe this will save lives down the road.

Answer 10

The US cannot nuke the Middle East. The only reason we are there is for oil. Nuclear fallout would destroy our chances of getting that oil, so it's not an option.