There is a lot of contraversial stuff about nuclear bombs. The use of them, the implications of them, the possesion of them. I just want to know what you people here at the escapist think about nuclear bombs in the modern world.
How I learned to love the bomb
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We also have them so we may shit ourselves into fear. We won't fire ours because they'll fire theirs. It's a "MAD" worldunabomberman said:
only if aliens are coming to invade the earth. Other than that not more than 10 are needed for offensive and defensive tactics.
I love them, wonderful deterrent, keeps cold wars from going hot, and makes a mighty fine explosion.
More than that, most counties could survive a 10 nuke strike, MAD is the goal in maintaining high stockpiles of nuclear weapons.sabotstarr said:
If they could all be magically made to instantly disappear, then it would be great. Since they can't, it's sadly necessary to have them in order to stop nutcases who would otherwise use theirs to rule the world.
It's also good to have a small stockpile ready for use against possible rogue asteroids and/or possible unpleasant encounters with alien lifeforms, extremely unlikely as both might be.
It's also good to have a small stockpile ready for use against possible rogue asteroids and/or possible unpleasant encounters with alien lifeforms, extremely unlikely as both might be.
Bang on the money. MAD will always exist. Always. Unless everyone abolishes every single WMD ever (Nukes, ICBMs, etc) - but that isn't going to happen.karmapolice63 said:
As much as I don't like them, they're going to stay.
Imagine how Sirens of Titan would have ended without our missiles to stop the martians.sabotstarr said:
Nukes...well about that time eh chaps...not really all they are is empty threats we use to scare people
I love peter sellers, oh we're not talking about that.
I think its bad for anyone to have a weapon that could destroy our only planet. I like the idea of Russia and the USA making an effort to take apart a lot of these nukes however, we should makes sure these don't get in the hand of less stable countries (NORTHERN FUCKING KOREA).
I think its bad for anyone to have a weapon that could destroy our only planet. I like the idea of Russia and the USA making an effort to take apart a lot of these nukes however, we should makes sure these don't get in the hand of less stable countries (NORTHERN FUCKING KOREA).
Props on the Dr. Stranglove reference in the thread title.
We don't need them, the fact that everyone just hasn't decided to disarm all the nukes and put the left over material to better use, such as nuclear power plants, is rather contradictory to everyone's stance on the possession of them.
Asking if we need them is pointless, because despite what anyone says it boils down to that we now have to keep the status quo with everyone else who's got em. The real question is why have we not gotten rid of them and stomp anyone who attempts to make more into the ground.
We don't need them, the fact that everyone just hasn't decided to disarm all the nukes and put the left over material to better use, such as nuclear power plants, is rather contradictory to everyone's stance on the possession of them.
Asking if we need them is pointless, because despite what anyone says it boils down to that we now have to keep the status quo with everyone else who's got em. The real question is why have we not gotten rid of them and stomp anyone who attempts to make more into the ground.
They're keeping people away from the brink of WWIII,
but if someone could learn to detonate/create them without anyone's knowledge, we'd be effed.
but if someone could learn to detonate/create them without anyone's knowledge, we'd be effed.
And here I was hoping we were going to discuss Peter Sellers' acting abilities...
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Damn it! Ninja'd.pantsoffdanceoff said:
OOHHHH. I see what you mean. You're saying that nuclear bombs are cute flightless birds that live in antarctica. Wait a second, that still makes no fucking sense. please explain.Leorex said: