Is there any good to come out of nuclear weapons?

"If WWIII was fought with Nuclear Weapons, WWIV shall be fought with sticks and stones"- My History Teacher

Should we just get rid of them , including our own? So we have the most nuclear weapons ( Do we?). It would cause more harm then done. We have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 2 times. Its ironic, we want to rid the world of terror and violence, when we have the most terrifying weapon of all time ( Other then the DEATH STAR :P ) Many argue we need them to fight off anyone from using their own nuclear weapon. That is true. But what if they agree to the riddance of their own ?Can we agree with them? Can we or should we have riddance to nuclear weapons? I understand that countries will always have nuclear weapons , no matter if they agree . But lets just dicuss the main concept of this topic. Is there any benefit to nuclear weapons? I am shocked that there are some people who believe that nuclear weapons are good.

It powers cities.

It destroy's said cities.

Any sort of Nuclear weopon is bad, and owning nuclear weopons is terrible, but using them is disgusting and complete ignorance for the earth.

I say all nukes should be destroyed and no country alowed to own any on pain of invasion by the rest of the world :)

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

Any sort of Nuclear weopon is bad, and owning nuclear weopons is terrible, but using them is disgusting and complete ignorance for the earth.

I say all nukes should be destroyed and no country alowed to own any on pain of invasion by the rest of the world :)

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Any sort of Nuclear weopon is bad, and owning nuclear weopons is terrible, but using them is disgusting and complete ignorance for the earth.

I say all nukes should be destroyed and no country alowed to own any on pain of invasion by the rest of the world :)

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Launch them all

Nuclear power = good.

Nuclear weapons = not so good.

I don't really care if civilized countries have them to be honest. At this point it's a giant check-balance game anyway.

They are a necessary political deterant, but they should never ever be used. Even if North Korea shot off a few I don't think we should use them back. Its a slippery slope. Besides, North Korea is small enough to glass with conventional weaponary :P

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

DroidPhysX

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

[QUOTE="AutoPilotOn"][QUOTE="sonofsmeagle"]

Any sort of Nuclear weopon is bad, and owning nuclear weopons is terrible, but using them is disgusting and complete ignorance for the earth.

I say all nukes should be destroyed and no country alowed to own any on pain of invasion by the rest of the world :)

Kcube

Launch them all

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

Not really, but now that they exist we have to have them for self-defense (not really I guess since we'd still die, but they discourage countires from nukinh us if they know they'll go down too).

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

DroidPhysX

any nuclear war should avoided at all costs, if even one nation fires a nuke, life as we know it will never be the same

[QUOTE="AutoPilotOn"][QUOTE="sonofsmeagle"]

Any sort of Nuclear weopon is bad, and owning nuclear weopons is terrible, but using them is disgusting and complete ignorance for the earth.

I say all nukes should be destroyed and no country alowed to own any on pain of invasion by the rest of the world :)

Launch them all

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[QUOTE="AutoPilotOn"] And how do you do that?Dark__Link

Launch them all

I never said launch them into space..We might as well destroy the s**** out of humankind just to make things change...for a few years anyways untill they discover the anti matter bomb.

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

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[QUOTE="AutoPilotOn"] And how do you do that?sonofsmeagle

Launch them all

Launch them at Europa..that ******* is just watching us I KNOW IT!

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Launch them all

Kcube

I never said launch them into space..We might as well destroy the s**** out of humankind just to make things change...for a few years anyways untill they discover the anti matter bomb.

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

I literally just watched the episode "Duck and Cover" of The West Wing. Not counting todays events, but now this thread. Bizarre coincidence.

I would posit that nations with nuclear weapons are quite unlikely to fight wars with each other.

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No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

Dark__Link

Its great..somewhat as a power source.I want to beleive there is a better way though..like in Ironman 2 :)

[QUOTE="Dark__Link"][QUOTE="AutoPilotOn"] Everyone wants to not be dependent on oil and coal for power but yet doesnt want Nuclear power eigther. How you propose we get the power?sonofsmeagle

[QUOTE="sonofsmeagle"][QUOTE="Dark__Link"] And using Chernobyl as a reason to condemn nuclear power? Condemn the USSR, not the power source. With the exception of some hazardous waste products (which will be almost negligible when fusion becomes viable), there are no legitimate arguments against using nuclear power.Dark__Link

I do find it entertaining how persistently frightened the general public is of nuclear power.

[QUOTE="Dark__Link"][QUOTE="sonofsmeagle"] except where are you going to dump all that nuclear waste lol?sonofsmeagle

[QUOTE="sonofsmeagle"][QUOTE="Dark__Link"] And using Chernobyl as a reason to condemn nuclear power? Condemn the USSR, not the power source. With the exception of some hazardous waste products (which will be almost negligible when fusion becomes viable), there are no legitimate arguments against using nuclear power.Dark__Link

I do find it entertaining how persistently frightened the general public is of nuclear power.

coolbeans90

First to go are lawn mowers.

Well 2 things

1. Ended WW2 quicker. Saved millions of lives over invading Japan, and there by aloud Japan to quickly recover into a economic super power.

2. No WW3 (and possible no major war between super powers). MAD is the ultimate anti-war plan. No country is stupid enough to take on another super/semi super nation as the end result is M.A.D. Everyone loses, so no one tries. I feel very confident in saying there would have been a WW3 if nuclear weapons didn't act as a deterrent. The cold war would have been the red war with the blood of millions of lives lost.

Well 2 things

1. Ended WW2 quicker. Saved millions of lives over invading Japan, and there by aloud Japan to quickly recover into a economic super power.

2. No WW3 (and possible no major war between super powers). MAD is the ultimate anti-war plan. No country is stupid enough to take on another super/semi super nation as the end result is M.A.D. Everyone loses, so no one tries. I feel very confident in saying there would have been a WW3 if nuclear weapons didn't act as a deterrent. The cold war would have been the red war with the blood of millions of lives lost.

dercoo

Since they prevented WWIII, I'd say the outcome has been great so far. They are the reason the cold war wasn't burning hot.

Since they prevented WWIII, I'd say the outcome has been great so far. They are the reason the cold war wasn't burning hot.

psychobrew

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Since they prevented WWIII, I'd say the outcome has been great so far. They are the reason the cold war wasn't burning hot.

sonofsmeagle

Better a long cold war than a short (in relative terms) hot one.

They make sure that powerful and wealthy developed nations don't get invaded by other powerful and wealthy developed nations.

They make sure that powerful and wealthy developed nations don't get invaded by other powerful and wealthy developed nations.

Barbariser

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

DroidPhysX

Nuclear energy is one of the safest and cleanest forms of energy available

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

DroidPhysX

Yes, literally the ONLY nuclear plant disaster with any serious damage. :roll:

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No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

789shadow

Yes, literally the ONLY nuclear plant disaster with any serious damage. :roll:

Serious is an understatement. It was catastrophic. The plutonium, if it gets out of the reactor, has the potential to kill 100 million people through the air. And its half life is hundreds of thousands of years. Essentially, eternity.

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[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"]

No.

Nuclear power/weapons in general is dangerous. Look at chernobyl.

DroidPhysX

Yes, literally the ONLY nuclear plant disaster with any serious damage. :roll:

Serious is an understatement. It was catastrophic. The plutonium, if it gets out of the reactor, has the potential to kill 100 million people through the air. And its half life is hundreds of thousands of years. Essentially, eternity.

Wut.

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[QUOTE="789shadow"]

Yes, literally the ONLY nuclear plant disaster with any serious damage. :roll:

789shadow

Serious is an understatement. It was catastrophic. The plutonium, if it gets out of the reactor, has the potential to kill 100 million people through the air. And its half life is hundreds of thousands of years. Essentially, eternity.

Wut.

Uhh, nuclear fallout = radioactive substances = plutonium = it goes airborne = deadly?

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Serious is an understatement. It was catastrophic. The plutonium, if it gets out of the reactor, has the potential to kill 100 million people through the air. And its half life is hundreds of thousands of years. Essentially, eternity.

DroidPhysX

Wut.

Uhh, nuclear fallout = radioactive substances = plutonium = it goes airborne = deadly?

Yeah......only the nuclear material in power plants can't go airborne. :lol:

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[QUOTE="789shadow"]

Wut.

789shadow

Uhh, nuclear fallout = radioactive substances = plutonium = it goes airborne = deadly?

Yeah......only the nuclear material in power plants can't go airborne. :lol:

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