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Gradual nuclear proliferation continues to bring us closer to hell on earth. Can we please ban nuclear weapons before this happens? We've banned chemical and
by beebmam 9y ago
Gradual nuclear proliferation continues to bring us closer to hell on earth. Can we please ban nuclear weapons before this happens?
We've banned chemical and biological weapons. Why not nuclear? They post a much greater threat to humanity, and that threat is growing as states like North Korea improve their capability.
- jeffdavis 9y agoHow does that help in the case of the DPRK?
- quotemstr 9y agoNuclear weapons are the greatest instruments of world peace ever conceived. Don't you think we'd have had another set of massive industrial total wars in the 20th century had it not been for MAD? As it is, we've had only a few occasional brush fires. There is practically zero risk of an actual nuclear exchange. If you waved a magic wand and eradicated all nuclear weapons and other forms of mass destruction, you'd return us to a world of bloodshed and horror. It's counter-intuitive, but it's true.
- synicalx 9y agoThey basically are banned, at least for non-nuclear powers to obtain them anyway (see the NPT). The threat still is and always has been a real nuclear power loosing off their arsenal either in anger or by mistake - that's how you end the world.