Would it be fair for the world to impose sanctions on America until it ended its Nuclear programs?

Question

America is the only Nation that has ever used them , not once, but twice.

Does America pose a threat to the civilized world?

steven ...I had hoped you would get the point.

Answer 1

When an American president threatens to wipe a country off the map, then an embargo would be ok.

Answer 2

As a rule, the perennial mistake America makes is being too kind and tolerant of other nations, even when it is obvious they cannot be trusted.

Imagine how much better the world would have been if, after Germany surrendered in WWII, America turned to Stalin and said, "Look bud, your country has lost about 10 million soldiers, and 12 million civilians in this war. Your armies are exhausted, and you don't have the resources to continue fighting. We're not going leave this war without a lasting solution, so here's the deal: from this point on, if any country tries to develop nuclear weapons, we will immediately bomb that country.

First, we will bomb a less populated area, but if this country does not immediately renounce all nuclear aspirations, we will bomb their capital, and that will be the end of it."

Sounds harsh? But it would have kept the nuclear genie in the bottle. No one would ever have used, or threatened to use, nuclear weapons again.

To placate and reassure the world, we could have promised that we would never use nuclear weapons again, a very easy promise to keep considering how loathe any American President or Congress would be to authorize the use of such weapons.

Imagine the difference: no Cold War. No Communist takeover of Middle and Eastern Europe. Think of the savings of not having to build up the military for those 50-some years against the Communist menace.

In this world, there must be some governing order. We hoped the United Nations would fill this void, but this impotent, radically-oriented, and do-nothing organization has proven itself incompetent. Everyone laughs at UN Resolutions. Heck, Saddam Hussein racked up 17 sternly-worded Resolutions.

America is not a threat to the civilized world, we ARE the civilized world. No other nation on earth is so generous, compassionate, and noble as the United States of America. Wherever there is disaster, or people in need, the U.S. tries to help. We give much more foreign aid than any country on earth.

The U.S. invented this nuclear technology, and it can be used for safe, civilian purposes. Nuclear weapons should never have been allowed to proliferate; that was a grave mistake the United States made in trying to be neutral in the internal affairs of other countries. The whole world would have benefitted if we had "laid down the law."

The U.S. has shown its impeccable record of restraint. Not only have we not used nuclear weapons since Japan (and even Japan readily admits it was the best solution; a land war would have cost millions of lives), but we have never threatened anyone with them. Do you see the vast difference between how the U.S. acts and these illigitmate, rogue nations? If Iran got nuke technology, THE FIRST THING they would do is arrogantly and irresponsibly assert their right to use them, any way they see fit.

Someone needs to be the caretaker of nuclear technology. Someday, we will make advances that will greatly benefit all of mankind. The promise of clean, safe, and extremely cheap nuclear energy has not yet been realized. Who better to fulfill this dream than the country that invented the technology in the first place?

Answer 3

Remember this: relations between nations are anarchic. No "World Government" exists and nations do what they can get away with. It would be counterproductive for the world to sanction the US for nuclear weapons because there is no upside to that action and quite a lot of downsides.
The US economy is large and most nations need us to buy their products. It does you no good to damage your major customer.

At some point America's actions could pose a threat to the world and if enough nations felt threatened to the point that they would be willing to spend fortune or blood to oppose those actions it would be problematic for the US.

Answer 4

First Sanctions never work, Look at the US sanctions on Cuba yeah they will crumble any day now.


USA is not the only country to use them, USA is the only country to use them in war. and as for the civilian targets? there were none Japan had drafted the entire population, all citizens were classified as combatants.
Several other countries have used them, including Russia,India,Pakistan. They are just as deadly on a test range as they are in a city.


BTW america is a region of the world that includes North America, Central America and South America. Stating America is equalivent to saying Asia, gets you in the area but thats about it

Answer 5

If the world wants to have a global depression leading to massive unemployment, starvation, civil unrest, violence, and the breakdown of current civilization, then the answer is yes. America is the worlds consumer of goods. Forcing economic sanctions upon it will stop that consumption - so less goods are bought from other nations - so less workers are needed in those nations to produce the fewer needed supplies - so those unemployed people need to live....where will they go? Their gov'ts? Ahhh....and the govt uses tax $$$ to give handouts to the impoverished. But the system will quickly collapse when vastly fewer taxes are collected (because less people are working) to pay the impoverished who will be turned away by the govt...and they will live, how?

Answer 6

Hmm lets think about that. Responsible sane country with no threats toward anyone who isn't threatening them vs a country that supports terrorists and is a weapons supply center for extremists.
Or...how about this: Where does the ridiculous majority of the money that goes to support the UN come from?
And who is going to sanction us? We feed way too many people in way too many countries for them to be able to afford to sanction us.
Maybe its your Anti-American Rant that should be sanctioned. How could you bring up sanctions against your own country? Unless you aren't from the US. In either case...good luck to you and those sanctions

Answer 7

LOL! I'm laughing because it's such a fair question to ask but I'm sure you're going to get a lot of flak for asking it from people who like to try to have their cake and eat it too, the people who daily live by double standards.
But seriously, I think that this nation in some ways needs its "Ego" checked. We're a threat to the civilized world right now because of who we have in charge here and it's only going to get worse if We the People do not stop the bleeding away of our civil rights and the insidious growth of centralized power in the Executive branch. We are supposed to be the world's beacon of all kinds of freedom and how will we be that if Dubbya and company turn us into a police state?

Answer 8

As the only nation in history to nuke two, heavily populated cities killing unarmed women and children, some people here need to do some self examination for once. Wrong is wrong regardless of who commits it. So in a perfect world, the answer to this question is yes.

Answer 9

If it gets the U.N. out of the United States, I say impose the sanctions.

We have farms, oil, and the rest of the natural resources we need.

Answer 10

Please do it would put an end to bad toys overpriced goods from china and no more foreign oil and we would get to lower taxes due to not paying foreign countries for nothing.