Nuclear Bombs

[Red Harvest]

I think that without nuclear weapons we would have allready faced two or three world wars more.Nuclear weapons guarantee peace between most powerfull countries in the world.Thats why im very concerned about US missile shield program.If US gets it working properly,its only matter of time when the techique will spread all over the world.Then we are again in square one.

I seriously doubt that. A missile shield would always be very risky. A single weapon getting by is a powerful deterrent when it comes to nukes. Facing multiple launches, even a very good defense is likely to let some birds slip through.

Plus, as we found in a discussion in the monestary, you will find it difficult to name any mature democratic nations attacking one another. (Facist style takeovers, and splintering of former democratic nations being special cases.)

[Kagemusha]

I seriously doubt that. A missile shield would always be very risky. A single weapon getting by is a powerful deterrent when it comes to nukes. Facing multiple launches, even a very good defense is likely to let some birds slip through.

Plus, as we found in a discussion in the monestary, you will find it difficult to name any mature democratic nations attacking one another. (Facist style takeovers, and splintering of former democratic nations being special cases.)

You are right about the missile shied.It would be very hard to make it un-penetraple.But it still worries me.About world wars,im sure that the Warsaw pact would have attacked in 50´s without Nukes.

[Blodrast]

Only prob with nukes is that _eventually_ they will also get into the hands of people that are less than... mature (democracy-wise). It's really only a matter of time. As technology evolves, fissionable stuff will only become easier to get/transport/hide/etc...

Sure, the US and the others will keep a watchful eye, and that's good, but they will never be able to spot everything on time...and one slip is enough.

So I agree with the fact that nukes are the best peace-keepers, but only as long as they are almost impossible to obtain by everybody. Once crazy idiots get them, you can start looking for lots of cans and dig underground shelters... and note that for the reasons already mentioned, it's less likely that a country actually use them, than an organization; a country can (and will be) retaliated against; how do you target an organization that nukes your ass ?