do you feel safer in a world with nukes, or in a world without nukes?? (Iran, Afghanistan)

[cruxan]

personally i think we are safer with them then without them.. nukes are the biggest deterrent for super powers to keep all out warfare at bay.

hypothetical senario, conventional war with china in the year 2020.. china has equaled to the usa in conventional warfare technology.china will have like 1.4 billion people and the usa will have about 400 million.. so who do you think would win the conventional war??

[zz4guy]

Safer with nukes, for the same reason I feel safer with a gun in my home. Never want to use it, but going to a gun fight without a gun gets you killed.

[Peggy Anne]

Safer without. Little boys with their nasty toys....and a tendency toward pissing contests don't make a pretty picture.

[parfleche]

too late they are here to stay. hope nobody uses them. the big boss countries are cool for now but them little bs countries are scarey

[Frankie117]

The purpose of nuclear weapons is to sit in their silos. If they are launched, they have failed in their purpose. That purpose being preventing war, in that an attack on another nuclear power would mean nuclear annihilation of everyone. That is why during the Cold War, the battles between the USSR and USA took place in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, Central America, etc. and not on our own soil. This concept of 'proxy war' in countries of the third world is how future wars will be fought in order to avoid nuclear holocaust.

[Icy Tea]

Safer,as long as they are in the right hands and are used as deterrents. I'd hate to think about what Europe or Asia would be like if we didn't have them. Imagine a third world war or fascism still reigning unchecked.

[silas777]

Originally Posted by cruxan

personally i think we are safer with them then without them.. nukes are the biggest deterrent for super powers to keep all out warfare at bay.

hypothetical senario, conventional war with china in the year 2020.. china has equaled to the usa in conventional warfare technology.china will have like 1.4 billion people and the usa will have about 400 million.. so who do you think would win the conventional war??

I feel safest when the United States has Nukes and no one else does, and the U.S is led by a good pro Military Conservative Republican!

[burdell]

I've never lived in a world without nukes, how would I know?

[Brie85]

I would feel safer in a world without nuclear weapons. I worry that one country will choose to use nukes, another country will retaliate in kind, and we will be left with unspeakable destruction. I'm not a big fan of creating more ways to kill massive amounts of people.

[Memphis1979]

I feel safer with them. With that much destructive power contained in one weapon, its harder for countries to accept the human cost on civilians with that type of weapon.

However, its also a good thing that everyone is afraid that someone might use them.

I think in a world without atomic weapons, war would still be as painful as it was in WWII. Percision bombs wouldn't be used anymore, just carpet bombing.