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If we are going to sing that song: if somebody is going to kill 10 million people tomorrow is, necessarily, somebody with nuclear or biological weapons. As a n
by RobertoG 11y ago
If we are going to sing that song: if somebody is going to kill 10 million people tomorrow is, necessarily, somebody with nuclear or biological weapons.
As a non-American I would feel a lot safe if you just dismantle yours.
- briandear 11y agoAmerican has used nuclear weapons twice in history. Fearing American nukes is ridiculous and not based on any rational thought.
- RobertoG 11y agoIn my opinion, fearing nukes, in general, is pretty rational.
- oldmanjay 11y agoFear can't be rational. It's definitional. The fear is justifiable in some sense, of course, as we still allow people to feel whatever they want (if not express it)
- JupiterMoon 11y agoA counterpoint is that the US is the only country in the world ever to use nuclear weapons. (I don't think that this actually makes the US more likely to use them again.)
- crpatino 11y ago1. Last time I checked, 2 > 0. 2. Actually, 2 > 1 also. If the goal was to demonstrate unsurmountable military power and Hiroshima had already happened, what's the point of Nagasaki? 3. Given the past record of violations to international treaties, it can be argued that if the Russians had not developed the capability to retaliate in kind, N >> 2 by now.