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Question

Why is countries around the world are making more and more nuclear bombs, if they can't use this bomb in this world?

Answer 1

Existing countries that already do have the nuclear bomb have agreed not to mass stockpile nukes through the nuclear profileration treaty. The USA had its prime had around 40,000 nuclear weapons, at the moment we have around 10,000 nukes and each year the USA and Russia are dismantling more

Other countries that build nukes do it for defensive purposes and aren't building nukes in mass.

Answer 2

Well they certainly CAN use nukes if they have them.

However, there is a doctrine of MAD, something you don't hear much about while everybody is wringing their hands about Iran and North Korea, which tends to prevent the nuclear countries from using their bombs on one another - it's "Mutually Assured Destruction" -- unless the first strike knocks out the other guy's nukes, the other guy WILL respond with a counter-strike. Therefore any nuclear strike against a nuclear-capable country assures mutual destruction.

MAD is very likely what kept the U.S. and Russia (at that time the U.S.S.R.) from engaging in nuclear war.

So I say, let Iran build nukes, if that's TRULY what they're doing (and with the current pathalogical liar in the White House, who knows what the real truth is). If they use them on Israel (a nuclear capable nation), they would be toast from the counter-strike. They know that, and wouldn't use them for that reason.

Answer 3

After the Cold War, many countries were afraid of being hit with a nuclear bomb. As a consequence, they started to build this kind of weapons. They are useful for defense, a country will think twice in fighting against a country with nuclear power. And for offensive, if a country wants to hurt badly another enemy nation. Of course, they haven't been used, afraid of a counterattack that could later start a World War.

Answer 4

It's a lot like a defensive weapon now than an offensive check. As stated before, mutually assured destruction is a large deterrent to not using nukes. If two states go to war, one with nukes, then the one could theoretically use nukes at will (of course, world response would be swift, but between the two, it wouldn't really matter). However, if both have the ability to strike each other with nuclear weapons, then they are less likely to attack one another, let alone use nukes. It's the fear of losing that keeps them from it.

Answer 5

There are now more than 50,000 nuclear weapons, more than 13,000 megatons of yield, deployed in the arsenals of the United States and the Russia-- enough to obliterate a million Hiroshimas.

Any questions about making more and more is non sequitor...the point of having a rational arsenal has long since past....

Answer 6

It's called MAD..mutually assured destruction..as a deterrent to the insane use of nuclear weapons. Some crazily think more is a strength.

Answer 7

They can. The Non-Proliferation Treaty says you can't build more but that doesn't matter to most countries. To the countries that have them it is a insurance policy, it says if things are bad enough we will use it. As for Iran and North Korea developing them it is a little of the insurance policy and using them to further their own agenda. I fear that N. Korea and Iran may give it to terrorists though who will use it.