Doubt that'll happen, but if America will always be a top country untill its laid to ruins. [Not being crazy, just saying, I doubt its going down without a fight. A BIG fight.] Since with all the people living here and the companies that run world wide contracted, either they lose billions and help our country survive, or they keep giving us economic upkeep. Also, we are economy obsessed, somewhat. I doubt were hitting communist, because all communism falls, and for now, even if there is a little show to it -- we've got a people power. Un-free won't happen, we'll be invaded or rebel. xP
lol, they probably paid him very handsomely for creating a weapon of such mass destruction....But if we hadn't of made it, the Russians were bound to eventually. This topic is gonna get really big...everything about nuclear energy or atomic bombs always seems to be popular. Our government is crumbling so soon enough we will become like all the other nations...either communist, economy obsessed, or even *gulp* UN-FREE
belive it or not they clean the needle in a death penalty.
but on the Marie topic the A-bomb is a bad thing and a bad thing it makes it so we are respected by other countrys and they feel like they are "underdogs" so they won't attack us. BUT think of all the new things we have dicovered with uranium like nulcular energy and I agree will murftheman in "It is not her fault that we used uranium for a bomb." and we wouldn't know what's in a atom without uranium!
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i also think that Marie Curie did the right think after all she dicovered radium as well, and she only did it for the benefit of science.
The death penalty (In my opinion) is bad. There are other ways to deal with criminals. By killing a criminal we are doing (probably) what the criminal did in the first place. I think Ghandi said: an eye for an eye and we'd all be blind. Or something like that.
Yeah, One of the first Egyptian civlizations came up like that. It was an "Eye for an Eye"
But thats where your going off topic, buddy. If I punched you it would be wrong for you to hit back, but what if I wanted to murder you? You would have no choice but to use self defence and possibly killing me.
As such, When people who are insanely bad do crap like tihs, tis the only way to ensure peace on the modern society. It also has something to do with being "Just". Anyway, The rarely kill on the Death penalty, so its A-Okay.
Also, Marie Curie did nothing wrong, she found a buncha radioactive metal and studied it. Ended up being known as Uranium.
Notepad, your off though. We have the most Nukes, but Russia has about half of what we have, Israel has an uknown arsenal, both India and Pakistan have somewhere around 100-400.
So, the worlds at a scary state. I wish somehow they'd all just... go away. [ DO NOT WANNA BE BOMBED!] So, actually, Notepad, if someone wanted to bomb america, they could do it. They'd probably just end up getting trashed and beat to death. But, they could still do it. Unless we somehow evaded the attack, who knows. xP So it may give us some defence, but theres always a possibility. Thats why were trying to keep down on Nukes, the only problem is, there are Seven country with Nukes, other countrys having enriched uranium all over the world. Its a fearful thing and were trying to take power over it instead of trying to get rid of it.
Exacly what shermzx said. Should the person who created automobiles be held responsible for every death involving a car? No! It's absurd. So why would Curie be at fault for the atomic bomb?
She just discovered it. The scientists who made the bombs were the ones who did it. She just discovered it, it is not her fault at all. Plus you can not blame the scientists, they needed protection in a critical time and needed and uber weapon to defeat the Japaneses.
Marie Curie did not do anything wrong Did she invent the Uranium Bomb. No. Someone else did. That person is in the wrong. Dynamite was not supposed to be a weapon. Is the creator of dynamite bad? No. The person who used it as a weapon is.
Science is neither good nor evil. What it discovers can be used for good and for evil; the use depends on the user. Marie Curie, and her husband Pierre, are not evil people for their work discovering radiation. Neither is Robert Oppenheimer a bad person for developing the atomic bomb. Even the use of atomic weapons is not intrinsically evil. Would the Americans on this board have rather performed a costly invasion of the Japanese home islands? The casualties would have been in the millions for both the Allies and the Imperial Japanese forces, instead of the few hundred thousand that died from dropping Fat Man and Little Boy.
I can't say that nuclear weapons stopped wars either. The list of declared and undeclared wars between 1945 and present is evidence enough of that.
As has been pointed out upthread, the advances in radiation have been much more beneficial to humanity than detrimental.
