Nuclear Warfare?

Question

What is the point in nuclear warfare? Why do countries have to have warfare to protect their countries? If other countries didn't have their warfare then we wouldn't need to have ours. Doesn't it seem like a bit of a vicious circle... Just something i've been thinking about today...

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

That is the great Catch-22 of the nuclear debate. If nobody had them, nobody would need them. Personally I would love to see all of these weapons destroyed. However, just because you do away with the current weapons doesn't mean an end to it all because you cannot do away with the knowledge required to build one. Our introduction into the nuclear age was like opening Pandora's Box and I am just not sure there is any way to close it now, but like Pandora's Box remember that what was left was hope. This is what we must cling to. Hope that never again will the world know the horror that is the use of these weapons.

Answer 2

Yes it's crazy. Picture this: I have a gun pointed at your head and you have a gun pointed at my head. I say to you, put your gun down first and then I'll put mine down. Would you? If you did then what's to stop me from shooting you, now that you have no defense. It's the same way with countries. The trick is to find a way for all nuclear weapons to be destroyed symutinously and verified. Until then we're stuck lining in a MAD (mutual assured destruction) world.

Answer 3

Why do we need guns? Because if you have a stick and I have a gun, you’re not going to attack me with your stick. If your nation has 600,000 tanks and my nation has 5 nukes, you’re not likely to attack. Nuclear weapons were originally developed because of the technological arms race of WWII. We thought the Germans were developing one, so we beat them to it, then used it on Japan to end that theater of war. The USSR didn’t release the territory and countries it took over after the war, and they feared that the bomb would be used on them if hostilities broke out, so they acquired nuclear weapons. Then other nations followed for the same reasons. Everyone knows the devastation one of these weapons would have, and to date only he US has ever used them. But because of the threat they imply, it provides a sense of security to have one, much like caring a gun.

Answer 4

They have it so they can say they are a "nuclear power" which makes them believe they are in the same league as the United States. The ones that scare me are not the ones that have it, it's the ones that will use it.

Answer 5

your absolutly right. the whole thing is pointless. the only reason we still have them is cause are enemeys do. and know one wants to back down. i guess the thought of our response to the people who nuke us would be so big with more nukes that they die with us. so if we go they go. which makes us and everyone else sit there and wait. cause no one wants to start the mess. but sooner or later someone will.

Answer 6

And some day the lion will lie down with the lamb. Until it actually happens though I am going to keep betting on the lion.

Answer 7

Its called mutual assured destruction. Basically the decision to drop a nuke would be the decision to destroy the world

Answer 8

You said it, it's a vicous circle. But there are countries out there who have nukes (and chemical weapons, and biological weapons) aimed at us, so we must be prepared.

Answer 9

It is just used for a deterrent one with the biggest stick rules the neighborhood.

Answer 10

greed of those that are in controll it would be great if we could all break down our boarders sounds to me like your an idealist