Why does the US feel it should be the only country to have nuclear weapons?

Question

Do you really think it's wise of us to bully North Korea and Iran to shut down their nuclear reactors?

Why can't we play fair and not have nuclear weapons, ourselves?

Answer 1

Agreed. They have no value except to bully others. We have the technology to get any warmongering job done without blasting the planet into a cancer ridden ice age (or whatever the nuclear scenario is now). The US has the most weapons and should be dismantling the most weapons, not the other way around. HOWEVER Korea has a bad habit of acting rather than bullying and we definitely don't want those trigger happys to have nukes. NO NUKES.

Answer 2

The world decided that the countries with Nuclear weapons should be the only ones with nuclear weapons when most of the world signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. The US (and other countries) are enforcing that treaty as best they can.

Also: The US is the only country ever tested (for 3 years after WWII) with the capacity for nuclear attack. We passed that test with flying colors between 45 and 48. We used our leverage during that time to create a stronger UN and to bring future enemies to the table for diplomatic discussions.

Giving up our nuclear weapons would lead to our destruction because real bullies (like Kim Jong Il and the Iranian leadership) only respond to strength.

Answer 3

Ah yes. Some have already forgotten that the notion of nuclear annihilation is a memory due to Reagan's handling of the Soviets.

As a kid who grew up performing futile 'hide under the desk' drills, I am glad somebody stood up for a realistic plan to end the cold war.

"During the Cold War, Reagan’s critics believed that the triumph of Communism was inevitable. After Reagan won the Cold War, those same critics now argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union was inevitable and our military buildup an unnecessary waste. Which was like saying it was a mistake to fight World War II since it was inevitable that Hitler would commit suicide in a bunker in 1945." (1)

We are not confronted with the threat of 'gentlemen'. The federal government is supposed to 'provide for the common defense'. Not 'take one in the behind to show that we are nice guys'.

Answer 4

North Korea government is in the middle of a famine and they could not care less.
They believe they can kidnap any person they want and they have in the past. This includes a movie producer and they forced him to make movies.
Is this a government that you would trust with a nuclear weapon? They are the most evil government in the world.

Answer 5

This is a very important question in that up to this very moment we are the only country to ever use such a weapon against anyone! One can understand why other smaller not so developed countries fear us enought to want to have them too! I have often wondered the same thing myself!
Its real easy for some of the others posting to say that we are not a rogue nation at the moment when in fact that is excactly what we are and have been in invading Iraq.
That country not too much unlike Nagasaki is pretty much in ruins! What we need to do as responsible Americans is to use the power of our votes to elect government officials who care about human life enought to never consider the use of nuclear weapons as well as invading other countries that have not attacked us!
There is more power in one persons vote than we may ever know!

Answer 6

Don't think so.
After what had happen back in the past with the Liberation of Freedom for the good of mankind from world war two.
With the creation of peace on earth goodwill to men.
The price of Hiroshima and Nagasaki expose the risk out there.
Look at the mess out there.
Ever wonder can "The young one " with total loss of IQ handle it when the Elders all leave in time?
Lesson from Chernobyl in Russia and the submarine Kursk?
Are we going to leave all those toys for little children with loss of IQ to play with it?
Ever wonder what can happen when living human kind walk pass a cave with cave -men and drop a packet of fire crackers.
Ever wonder will the cave -men pick up some stones and try to hammer on the fire-crackers and get themselves "All Black"?
Wonder who will that be?

Answer 7

Really, this is too deep a question for this forum. We have to trust the politicians to do the right thing. North Korea an Iran are a threat to global stability.

Answer 8

properly, the US is a to blame u . s . with their nuclear weapons. they don't look to be Iran threatening to annihalate and "wipe different international locations" off the map. specific our distant places coverage hasn't been that great around the globe notwithstanding, diverse our rules distant places, each so often, has been constructive to the US and different international locations. Now i don't think of we could desire to consistently be in touch in different international locations' affairs yet i don't think of any u . s . could be dumb adequate to attack the US.

Answer 9

This is a dumb question. It's not that the US wants to be the only country with Nukes. There are plenty of others that have them and the US doesn't worry about it. What makes the US and others worried and want countries to shut them down is because those countries have CRACKPOT LEADERS that not only could fire them at someone else, but they could sell them.

Answer 10

We're not the only country to have nuclear weapons . . .