Nuclear Bombs

[milefile]

So much talk about nuclear weapons has the effect of making them seem like just another weapon. I see a desensitizing process regarding them. This is bad.

I think we should all study up on what nuclear bombs do. From the comfort of a leather chair, Bush could annihilate the entire world. That is how powerful the American president is.

Nowhere is safe. Nuclear bombs are intended to kill everybody and everything.

I actually am afraid somebody will use them in the forseeable future. I just don't know what we'd do if humanity sunk that low. Would it even be worth living? How would one explain to their kids how killing hundreds of thousands of people in a matter of seconds is justifiable? Especially if it's your government that did it?

I get anxious over it, especially when I hear Ashcroft on the radio talking about using them. To comfort us he says something about making it through Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq without using them, but reminds us that it has always been the policy of the U.S. to never preclude their use.

Now I already know there will be posts here that dismiss any concern I or anyone else could have, so I will dismiss that right off. The fact of the matter is the world unstable right now. The geopolitical balance is in a state of flux. The only constant is American Power, and that, too, is fleeting, as has been shown over and over throughout history.

It's depressing. Nuclear war. Yea!

 

[Pupik]

I'm concerned...using a nuclear warhead to solve our issues will mean that we will have already lost. Using any weapons civilians is just plain wrong. However, to destroy the chemical plants, armed forces, weapons facilities, and war-construction plants, and communication is permissible in ths "new type" of war...hopefully no innocent lives will be lost.

I don't know squat about war or battles or anything like that, but I do know using a mass-destruction weapon (i.e. that which destroys a much wider area than it's intended target) is cowardly for anyone to use.

Any war with Iraq will likely kill thousands of innocent civilians. They may disagree with the life Western culture chooses to live, as we with them, but they are innocent and shall be caught in the fog of war. And it it very likely that a cause, whether nationally-sponsored, or independetly-sponsored will retaliate in return.

Live life while you can. I won't prophesize any further what the outcome will be.

 

[Der Alta]

I actually am afraid somebody will use them in the forseeable future. I just don't know what we'd do if humanity sunk that low. Would it even be worth living? How would one explain to their kids how killing hundreds of thousands of people in a matter of seconds is justifiable? Especially if it's your government that did it?

talk to your Grandparents. How did they explain it to your parents?

Keep in mind that the US is the only country in the world to have utilized nuclear weapons. Fat Man and Little Boy.

AO

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by Der Alta
talk to your Grandparents. How did they explain it to your parents?

I doubt they did at all. That was a different generation that had less questions and less awareness (people will argue this is not true). And the war during which they were used was not comparable to the situation at hand today. And finaly, we know what they do now. Those first bombs were essentially prototypes. After fifty years of tests and empirical data, the situation is totally different.

 

[ledhed]

I remember going to school and having Emergency alert drills..I grew up with the bomb and the threat of it being used, or more precisely missles. My parents were scared to death that because of were we live we were one button from being evaporated,. One of the happiest days in my life was when I watched the wall come down and all that it signifys. Nukes are far from trivial . India or Pakistan alone can come close to ending the world as we know it with just the weapons they have. Add the U S , we can destroy the world 3x over with a percentage of our weapons. Russia the Ukarain, , France, Great Britain, China, Isreal, now north korea. How many more ? The more that there are the greater the chance that some day they will be used. And in case you didn't know our nukes of today make the bombs droped on Japan look like firecrackers. As long as one country has one bomb or missle there will be no one insane enough to give theres up. All we can hope to do is keep any more countrys from developing or using them , until we all feel secure enough to dump them on mars.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by ledhed
India or Pakistan alone can come close to ending the world as we know it with just the weapons they have. Add the U S , we can destroy the world 3x over with a percentage of our weapons. Russia the Ukarain, , France, Great Britain, China, Isreal, now north korea. How many more ? The more that there are the greater the chance that some day they will be used.

I edited something like this out of my original post just because it was so long. But it's true.

Wouldn't it be great if everybody could just agree to get rid of all of them at once. Presto! No nukes. But it'll never happen. There's no trust and no reason for it I guess.

It's also worth noting that America routinely violates the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. We detonate them underground all the time.

 

[Cobraboy]

Hmmm, now the book & movie 'The Beach' Comes to mind....

 

[milefile]

Why? I'm not familiar ith either.

 

[Cobraboy]

The Beach is book by a guy, something Shunzt, I can't remember. But its about a nuclear wat between the US and China I think, and the last inhabitable place in the world is Australia, the rest of the world has been whipped out. After a while the radiation cloud drifts down over Australia and everyone ends up dying.

I doubt something as serious as that would happen. But I've got a strong feeling that this upcoming 'war' is going to turn nuclear. Sooner or later.

[EDIT] Nevil Shute [/edit]

 

[Red Eye Racer]

I could see North Korea sending out 8 Nukes, one in each general direction away from themselves, hoping to go down in a blaze of glory when we turn to stop them after Iraq. Not likely, but a theory.