Imperium Anglorum wrote:Confederation of Common Sense wrote:If this passes, I am immediately leaving the WA. This is a stain on the WA's aims toward peace and tranquility.Imperium Anglorum wrote:I, after taking a course on international affairs at university1, have always held the position that nuclear weapons are one of the greatest tools for peace ever developed. They have made the costs to war so high and so immediate that any attack is unimaginable because it would summon back to the fore the ghost of total annihilation. All nations with nuclear weapons will never give them up, because they are integral to the security dilemma. All nations without nuclear weapons want them, because after getting them, they will never be existentially threatened again.
By imposing such immense costs to conflict, multi-state war between any nuclear powers has become effectively impossible, allowing us to have the world we have today, one of greater peace and safety than ever before; the spectre of millions dying in the fields of France or the islands of the Pacific has now permanently disappeared.
This fails to take into account the fact that nuclear weapons are also used to blackmail other nations, such as The Interview Incident involving North Korea and the United States. North Korea wouldn't have had the courage to have the movie pulled and therefore violate another nation's sovereignty if they did not have nuclear weapons.