What are pros of nuclear war?

Question

lots of details please... im writing a paper for my 10th grade english class

Answer 1

In a total Nuclear exchange, Their are no pros, Civilization has been destroyed!

In a limited exchange, you can quickly and desicevley disable your enemies command and control, ability and will to fight.

Really the only current reason for a weapon is deterence. Nuclear Weapons could be used as a first strike weapon to disable an enemies ability to fight back. The problem is, if they also have the weapons, you can not for 100% certainty eliminate all of theirs in a first strike, and are prone to retaliatory strike in return, probably full scale. A final say weapon of certain destruction of your enemy. The US has been fooling with the idea of very low yield weapons to be used as bunker busters, and destroy caves. If employed their would be allot of pros with this type of weapon. You enemy is killed with near 100% certainty, and you do not have to risk sending Friendly forces into a very bad environment. In Bunkers and Caves, the defender has every advantage, with weapons that destroy thw whole complex, this is a non-issue.

Nuclear weapons do have tactical capabilities, but the cons out weight the pros by such a margain, you will not see a civilized nation use them, minus bunker and cave busters, which I bet will come to be at some time.

Answer 2

None. However, an atomic explosion a few thousand feet in the atmosphere could disable communications, "kill" batteries, cell phones, satellites, or anything electronics related including power plants on earth and disable vehicles. It's called the EMP or Electro-magnetic-pulse. However, the downside is a nuclear winter, radiation poisoning, fallout and the areas affected would be uninhabitable for at least 100 yrs. depending on the prevailing winds ect. During the "cold war" the US and russia had enough nukes to destroy the earth 100 times over, and during that time we came close 3X's to "pushing the button". We had B-52's sitting on the end of certain selected runways running and "locked and loaded". If Bush wanted to "play cowboy" during 9-11, he could have but didn't. With what we have today, Hiroshima and Nagasaki would amount to mortars.
The "pros"-- we're all D-E-A-D and earth will be nothing but a lump of coal. This is why we need to disarm Iran, as they have stated they will use it if they can acquire it, and the russians are at it again.

Answer 3

It really does depend upon who gets hit and how extensive the war is. If you're talking about all-out nuclear bombardment around the world then only the cockroaches might see that as a 'pro'.

If, however, you are talking about limited use of nukes to prevail in a conflict, I hope that it is the US that uses them and convinces a determined enemy (perhaps Iran) that the future of this world will not be one of Socialist dictatorships or a global Islamic Caliphate.

Humanity has made too much progress towards freedom to allow a backslide to the Medievalist practices of Socialism or Islamic Sharia. It was worth fighting the American Revolution to progress this far, it is worth defending this progress with superior force.

Answer 4

There are very few pros to nuclear war. To start, the obvious...It is a quick and easy victory. All you have to do is press a button in the football (that the briefcase the president carries around with him that has all the nuclear codes in it) and the country is destroyed. A second would be that you could save the lives of our soldiers. Instead of sending our boys over there all you have to do is again press a button. Other than that I see no other good coming from nuclear war.

Answer 5

Pro's of nuclear war? I do not quite understand the question... but from an international country's standpoint, having nuclear capabilities not oly allows for efficient energy use, but also as a defense to scare away those who may be aggressors to their way of life. If there was a nuclear war, then the pro i would consider is that the population people woudl be solved... we wouldn't be left. There are no pros to nuclear way.
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Answer 6

Certain victory.
That is if the enemy country dosen't have some sort of anti-nuclear defense grid.

But to be completely honest, there are hardly any pros for nuclear war. Nuclear weapons are only to be used as a last resort for a reason.

Answer 7

One of the pros of a nuclear war would be the elimination of the human race including many other animal species in the world so that there would be no one left to pollute the planet and help to kill off the planet. The cons of such a war is that there would be no one left to write or even read about it anymore........

Answer 8

The pro of a nuclear exchange would be that you secured a tie against your enemy. That's all :p

Answer 9

there aint any pros at all if there were a nuclear war. pretty much mankind will destroy themselves and earth completely, thus killing everyone.

Answer 10

ask the innocent women and children plus old people who died in hirosima and nagasaki as the result of it's first and only use by a nazi country.