Of all the "noble lies", if you could call them that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie), people way over exaggerati

Of all the "noble lies", if you could call them that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie), people way over exaggerating the potential negative capability of nuclear weapons has to one of the least harmful and most positive. Any country or organization using nukes in warfare would suffer such a huge global backlash that it'd mitigate almost any tactical benefit. That's probably a large reason why the United States, Israel, and Russia, who've all had some pretty serious armed conflicts since getting their arsenals online, haven't used them at all. I'm generally considered very pro-military in the crowd I run in, but I consider the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to both be in the top ten of WWII atrocities, and that's saying something.