What does Obama have in common with Reagan concerning nukes?

Question

"Nuclear War cannot be won and hence must never be fought”

- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev -


The end of the Cold War spurred significant and encouraging steps toward the abolition and eradication of nuclear weapons. After the breakthrough discussions between Gorbachev and Reagan at Reckjiavic in 1986, the substantial cutbacks in Russian and American nuclear warheads agreed to under the START negotiations, successive initiatives at the UN and the review conferences of the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Answer 1

well the knowledge enough to know, that we'll never use them.
Which leads to a big question of why Reagan spent us into so much debt building something we were just going to dismantle.
Not like they couldn't have just leaked the information that we did, and saved the money.

Answer 2

Yea, I'm pretty sure that everyone agrees that Nuclear war should never be fought. However they do serve as a deterrent and probably will prevent more death than they will ever cause. But that goes out the window if someone is ever stupid enough to use them. But you cannot eliminate them completly unless you can make sure that no one can ever build another one, because it's a pretty good bargaining chip.

Answer 3

President Reagan was talking about a war with the USSR.

Since Reagan was president, many other countries have nuclear weapons (North Korea, Pakistan, China's nuclear missiles, eventually Iran, etc.)..

Remember, the bombing of Hiroshima did not destroy Japan.

Answer 4

While with Reagan, he had to deal with the USSR, there are far more nations today possessing nuclear weapons.

Most of these nations are well trusted. Thing is, as long as there are 'rogue nations,' we must maintain a nuclear arsenal. Otherwise, there is no deterrent to nuclear strike.

Answer 5

Weakness is the prime character of Obama in declaring that there should no nuclear arms. US will be a prey to North Korea and Iran in case he wins.

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