Nuclear Weapons: Your Opinion

[Novus America]

would you nuke englabd

Literally nobody in my government has the balls to do so.

More like they are not that stupid. But considering Ireland faces no plausible threats and is a very small country, nukes would do it no good anyway.

Nothing against Ireland, it is a fine but a very small country. Connecticut has a bigger GDP than Ireland. Ireland simply does not have the human or natural resources to be a great or even mid level power.

[Community Values]

Nuclear weapons stop war, but only because of how destructive they are. Imagine giving your psychotic neighbor who doesn't understand the Home Owner's Association a match and 18 gallons of lighter fuel. Everyone else knows that lighting another persons house on fire will only end of badly for them, but the psycho doesn't care about his house, nor understand why you shouldn't light your rivals house on fire.

[Llamalandia]

Nuclear weapons are bad and here are my reasons why.

1. It's kill everybody including citizens

2. If a nuclear war happens it will cause a nuclear winter making everything become extinct.

First off in most cases soldiers are also citizens...I assume you meant civilians. But even there lots of other weapons kill civilians as well. Hell, didn't Fire bombing cause more civilian casualties than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Plus civilians are still killed by land mines from wars that have been over for decades. Cluster bombs. Carpet bombing. Lots of things kill indiscriminately and almost no weapon save perhaps snipers can really prevent 100% of collateral damage.

[Indo-Malaysia]

Nuclear weapons stop war, but only because of how destructive they are. Imagine giving your psychotic neighbor who doesn't understand the Home Owner's Association a match and 18 gallons of lighter fuel. Everyone else knows that lighting another persons house on fire will only end of badly for them, but the psycho doesn't care about his house, nor understand why you shouldn't light your rivals house on fire.

Kim-Jong Un, did you hear that?

[Indo-Malaysia]

Nuclear weapons are bad and here are my reasons why.

1. It's kill everybody including citizens

2. If a nuclear war happens it will cause a nuclear winter making everything become extinct.

First off in most cases soldiers are also citizens...I assume you meant civilians. But even there lots of other weapons kill civilians as well. Hell, didn't Fire bombing cause more civilian casualties than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Plus civilians are still killed by land mines from wars that have been over for decades. Cluster bombs. Carpet bombing. Lots of things kill indiscriminately and almost no weapon save perhaps snipers can really prevent 100% of collateral damage.

Though it is citizens who sign up to join, they are just counted separately.

[Herargon]

Great deterrent, awful aftereffects.

Herargon

[Kubra]

Nuclear weapons are bad and here are my reasons why.

1. It's kill everybody including citizens

2. If a nuclear war happens it will cause a nuclear winter making everything become extinct.

First off in most cases soldiers are also citizens...I assume you meant civilians. But even there lots of other weapons kill civilians as well. Hell, didn't Fire bombing cause more civilian casualties than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Plus civilians are still killed by land mines from wars that have been over for decades. Cluster bombs. Carpet bombing. Lots of things kill indiscriminately and almost no weapon save perhaps snipers can really prevent 100% of collateral damage.

the result of those wars is why a bunch of countries went and banned landmines

[Calimera II]

Great deterrent, awful aftereffects.

I doubt anyone, unless extremely crazy, will ever use nuclear weapons, so the deterrent-part somewhat falls away.

[Indo-Malaysia]

First off in most cases soldiers are also citizens...I assume you meant civilians. But even there lots of other weapons kill civilians as well. Hell, didn't Fire bombing cause more civilian casualties than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Plus civilians are still killed by land mines from wars that have been over for decades. Cluster bombs. Carpet bombing. Lots of things kill indiscriminately and almost no weapon save perhaps snipers can really prevent 100% of collateral damage.

the result of those wars is why a bunch of countries went and banned landmines

They probably invented time machines, and found out that in the future, Pokémon Go players were walking into Bosnian ones.

[Llamalandia]

the result of those wars is why a bunch of countries went and banned landmines

They probably invented time machines, and found out that in the future, Pokémon Go players were walking into Bosnian ones.

Has that actually happened? Because that sounds ridiculously plausible and kinda tragic.

[Llamalandia]

First off in most cases soldiers are also citizens...I assume you meant civilians. But even there lots of other weapons kill civilians as well. Hell, didn't Fire bombing cause more civilian casualties than Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Plus civilians are still killed by land mines from wars that have been over for decades. Cluster bombs. Carpet bombing. Lots of things kill indiscriminately and almost no weapon save perhaps snipers can really prevent 100% of collateral damage.

the result of those wars is why a bunch of countries went and banned landmines

Well the USA hasn't banned them, well effectively we have a de facto ban at the moment but we reserve the right to use them in the future.

[Hellgustine Empire]

Bad.Nuclear weapons cause great military forces to go to waste.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

For all their potential to end civilization and most multi-cellular life on this planet, nuclear weapons are an unfortunate necessity these days, and in fact became a necessity the moment the Trinity device was set off. Once one power obtained such a weapon of mass destruction, every other nation with the means would by necessity have to race and develop their own to maintain the balance of power.

Consequently, the threat of nuclear armageddon is the only thing that's kept a relative peace for all these years. Without the threat of indiscriminate global annihilation, there would be nothing to stop the world's major powers from waging destructive conventional wars.

[Rio Cana]

I am currently located in a region of the world which is a No Nuke area. No storing or making of Nukes allowed.

Map which shows it. Mainland US is not included but its territories in the Caribbean are included -



Read this - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bssundar/tlatelolco1.html

[Salus Maior]

Neither. They are inanimate objects.

So are its victims..

No, humans are animate objects. So it's not even a good evil joke

[Kubra]

the result of those wars is why a bunch of countries went and banned landmines

They probably invented time machines, and found out that in the future, Pokémon Go players were walking into Bosnian ones.

har dee har har
That bits kinda why they had em banned

[Wisconsin9]

Great deterrent, awful aftereffects.

I doubt anyone, unless extremely crazy, will ever use nuclear weapons, so the deterrent-part somewhat falls away.

The last fifty years of world politics suddenly make much more sense.

[Sjovenia]

Its okay to have them

[Yorkers]

Bring back the nuclear age.

[Yorkers]

I am currently located in a region of the world which is a No Nuke area. No storing or making of Nukes allowed.

Map which shows it. Mainland US is not included but its territories in the Caribbean are included -
(Image)


Read this - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bssundar/tlatelolco1.html

I guess Cuba didn't get the memo.

[Indo-Malaysian Puppet]

I am currently located in a region of the world which is a No Nuke area. No storing or making of Nukes allowed.

Map which shows it. Mainland US is not included but its territories in the Caribbean are included -
(Image)


Read this - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bssundar/tlatelolco1.html

I guess Cuba didn't get the memo.

I guess we could shift the blame to the Rooskies.

[Novus America]

I am currently located in a region of the world which is a No Nuke area. No storing or making of Nukes allowed.

Map which shows it. Mainland US is not included but its territories in the Caribbean are included -
(Image)


Read this - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~bssundar/tlatelolco1.html

I guess Cuba didn't get the memo.

The treaty did not come into effect until 1968, and Cuba did not ratify until 1995. The Cuban missile crisis was in 1962. So actually Cuba did not cheat on it.

[Amleria]

Nukes should be kept for scientific reasons.
Maby they can help for destroying astroids or comets on their way to Earth.
But Nukes for killing people? No.

[The Intergalactic Universe Corporation]

Nukes should be maintained for science, used as a deterrent for nuclear attacks by other nations and used to annihiliate asteroids

[Xeng He]

If you argument in favour of nukes is "so others can't use it" wouldn't that mean there isn't an argument against getting rid of all nukes?

Given that the world has already been close to a nuclear apocalypse back when the Russians had that little malfunction with their detection systems or whatever it was, we're better off without them.

Do you think North Korea or Pakistan will give up their nukes? We can't leave only rouge nations with nukes (Although Pakistan isn't a rouge nation)

If we really wanted to, we could easily make them, honestly.