Nuclear weapons will not go away, much to the chagrin of most people. They are the great equalizer and provide security for small countries against attack by a larger power.
Is it any wonder that countries like Iran are scrambling to develop nuclear weapons after the USA invaded Iraq. You counld bet you bottom dollar that the USA would have never invaded Iraq had the country had a nuclear shield.
If Iran gets nuclear weapons, the USA would be unable to invade Iran and remove its government. Is this the principal reason our government is fighting the Iranian nuclear program?
All bad regimes disappear over time. There is little need for the USA to have the ability to invade a country at will to remove a despot or an ideology we don't agree with.
Why the continued fuss over Iran's desire to develop nuclear weapons? There are alway enough nuclear weapons to kill the planet 10 times over. What does it matter if there's a few more?
2007-10-27 02:39:58 · 12 answers · asked by Perplexed Bob 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, but why not a few less? A nuclear weapon will induce more tension in the middle east. Previously, Israel couldn't use its nukes save the direst of extremes, because nobody else could use them. Now, Israel may not feel so inclined to save its nukes, because Iran has them. So more tension. People near Iran would fear a mini cold war.
How about we reduce everybody's arsenal; so we can - at max - only kill half the planet. So somebody can survive at least.
2007-10-27 03:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Mitchell 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If Iran wasn't being run by a nut case that denies the Holocaust took place, that there are no homosexuals in Iran, etc., then the US might not be so concerned with Iraq having a nuclear weapon. Also, don't fool yourself into believing that the US would not have attacked Iraq if they thought they had a nuclear weapon - Bush would have found a way to justify attacking anyway. I'm betting that if Iran really gets close to building a nuke, Israel will blow that area off the face of the Earth, like they just did in Syria. Israel does not take chances with anyone that threatens to wipe them off the face of the Earth. The US won't need to attack Iran's nuclear facilities - Israel will probably do it first.
2007-10-27 02:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Giving nuclear weapons to the Iranian govt is like giving a gun to an immature child that is a school yard bully.
Nuclear we ponds can not be allowed to a bad government that is not ready to be anything but a cruel selfish child.
2007-10-27 02:45:23 · answer #3 · answered by eric l 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it quite is in many situations agreed that the mere presence of nuclear hands interior the U. S. and the Soviet Union prevented the chilly conflict of the Fifties - 1990 from breaking out into armed conflict. the cost of nuclear weapons became of their deterrence of conflict. the rationalization why this occurred became using fact the international observed what occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and sought desperately to circumvent something remotely like that from ever happening back.
2016-12-18 18:34:51 · answer #4 · answered by hillhouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel has nuclear weapons, that wasn't stopped anyone from attacking them. Iran should be denied nuclear capability, since they have expressed a desire to use them.
2007-10-27 02:49:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One problem the reason why MAD work so well is because both US and the USSR didn't want to die.
Now that won't work becuase we are dealing with people who are not afraid to die. So if they do lanuch or give a nuke to someone and they denoate it in NYC it is their great reward.
That is why we can't allow Iran have nukes.
2007-10-27 02:45:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This debate has been going on since the '60s. If you haven't figured it out yet, you never will.
And only a fool would think that nukes are the great equalizer.
Russia and the US have proven that.
2007-10-27 02:44:44 · answer #7 · answered by Lynn G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you give a bad tempered,nasty,misbehaveing 10 year old a 12 ga. shotgun and a box of ammo?
Many children learn to hunt and shoot by that age,their parents see them as trustworthy and willing to learn the safe and proper handling of deadly weapons.
Others by their words and actions are deemed to be not mature enough.. If they get caught in the gun cabinet ,they get spanked.
Iran's leaders by their words and actions are not seen as trustworthy or mature.
Give them a bomb and they'll use it.
2007-10-27 03:01:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give one nut a nuclear weapon and he'll show you how to get rich or to get back at people he hates.
2007-10-27 03:04:43 · answer #9 · answered by Duminos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the nukes in smaller countries could be disassembled and made into a dirty bomb. guess who they would use that on? two answers, Israel and the USA. if they could they would.
2007-10-27 02:45:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋