I disagree. As long as we have the capability to create nuclear weapons and as long as they are the most powerful weapons available to us there will always be those who want to make them and aim to use them. The presence of nuclear arms does act as a deterrent against their use and I think that if there were none then some would be created again and used.
I disagree. As long as we have the capability to create nuclear weapons and as long as they are the most powerful weapons available to us there will always be those who want to make them and aim to use them. The presence of nuclear arms does act as a deterrent against their use and I think that if there were none then some would be created again and used.
Dammit. What he said :-( Same situation as say destroying all known guns, then only the 'bad guys' will have them = disaster.
In a Utopian society were leaders would actually obey the treaty that would ban the nuclear weapons and prevent there use throwout human history, then destroying them would be the best. However, we do not live in such a society. Banning them would not only be impossible, but ineffectual. The use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent will likely stop future wars thus save lives, with out them having to be used. Though we should probably work on a better interception system, though.
First off, how would you find out? Send a few spies to every single country to check? If all nuclear weapons were banned, the U.S, Russia, and many other countries would still have them, they would just be black operations.
No. Absolutely not. They are weapons of mass destruction, and last I checked, screwing with someone who has bigger weapons than you, is bad. When everyone know they will lose, they will not fight.
No one attacks someone with a gun, and a shootout kills two people quite frequently. Principle applies.
oh come on guys this difference of good guys and bad guys there is none of that all it is... Is that there will be no large red button pushed everywhere all around the world
"War begins when nations believe the price of aggression is cheap" - Ronald Reagan
In keeping with this philosophy then maintaining a nuclear arsenal is a form of guaranteeing your detractors that aggression against you will not be cheap, thus acting as a deterrent for war.
