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Originally posted by Cassius666
They only stop nuclear war. Also I believe Russia and America have a policy to not strike first with a nuclear weapon. What do you do if Iran invades Saudi Arabia and threatens nuclear retaliation if there is a counter strike?edit on 6-7-2012 by Cassius666 because: (no reason given)
Famed academic Kenneth Waltz for years has argued that more nukes around the world create peace. Why?
Famed academic Kenneth Waltz for years has argued that more nukes around the world create peace.
Originally posted by travis911
Famed academic Kenneth Waltz for years has argued that more nukes around the world create peace.
Why?
Because the more nukes are around, the more people are afraid to start a war with a nuclear armed state. Peace seems assured with a gun to the world's head.
In a recent interview, he argues that Iran gaining nuclear weapons would be a good thing.
He points out that "President Obama and a number of others have advocated the abolition of nuclear weapons and many have accepted this as both a desirable and a realistic goal. Even entertaining the goal and contemplating the end seems rather strange. On one hand the world has known war since time immemorial, right through August 1945. Since then, there have been no wars among the major states of the world. War has been relegated to peripheral states (and, of course, wars within them). Nuclear weapons are the only peacekeeping weapons that the world has ever known. It would be strange for me to advocate for their abolition, as they have made wars all but impossible.""
Sad world.
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Originally posted by SpaceMonkeys
Thanks to nuclear weapons all it takes is one maniac and the entire planet is gone.
Originally posted by nerbot
Originally posted by SpaceMonkeys
Thanks to nuclear weapons all it takes is one maniac and the entire planet is gone.
Unfortunately I think it takes a lot more than one and there's a staggering amount of them out there, they're called armies.
And the earth cannot be destroyed by us. We would go before that happened.