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Re: I believe...
I hope not.
Realisticly I don't see how anyone can use a nuke without worldwide condemnation/retaliation. So i'd think it would only happen if things got so out of control that there was no choice - like to end a ww3 that had dragged on for decades or something...or if some crazy steals one and lets it off....and even then...would there be a responce?
I dunno. I guess it's like once one person breaks the tabboo and uses them all bets are off.
But let's just pray nothing like that happens in our lives and we can live in peace.
Re: I believe...
Every leader in power wants to keep that power no matter what. No matter how "crazy" they are. Using a nuke will take that power away. Having the threat of a nuke means more power. Why be a martyr when you already have power? There won't be an all out nuclear war.
We might have a rogue terrorist set one off.
Re: I believe...
I believe... I was drunk last night 
I dont lose sleep over it, its just the way it is to me. I see my future and it comes in the shape of a mushroom cloud.
I always lived not far from the UKs biggest nuclear weapon base, in the epicentre if you will, and if the shit hits the fan that will be a first target, so the thoughts always lingered at the back of my mind.
I'd take a meteor or comet any day of the week, thats just nature doing its thing. But the thought of some fuckhead in a suit having the power to cause utter ruin, I find that rather irksome.
Re: I believe...
For the record, no one makes bombs of that magnitude anymore. The nuclear weapons that are in our arsenals are much more 'surgical' than that monstrosity. Obviously the US and Russia can still wipe us all out, but it isn't something like it would have been had it happened during the Cold War.
I doubt we ever see an all out nuclear war, but a limited one(India-Pakistan, NK-US, Russia-former Soviet state, a US/Russian response to a terrorist attack, etc.) is certainly possible at some point.
I do agree with ID that the concept of having them is much better than using them. If you don't have nuclear weapons, you run the risk of getting bogged down in a US/Soviet-Russian conflict. If you have nuclear weapons, up until the present day you do not have to worry about such an attack. The so called "chickenhawks" get to have their little wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for years on end, but present a major crisis to these same people when it concerns a nuclear power(NK, Pakistan, Iran), all of a sudden they want restraint and start singing 'Give Peace A Chance' because if they give the go ahead, they might wake up to find their own pooch got screwed by the tip of a nuclear missile.
If the crisis in Korea continues to escalate, it's gonna put that strategy to the test.
I always lived not far from the UKs biggest nuclear weapon base, in the epicentre if you will, and if the shit hits the fan that will be a first target, so the thoughts always lingered at the back of my mind.
Most of my life I have lived miles from Castle Air Force base. When I was a kid we used to go watch them run their drills during the Cold War. B-52s taking off one right after the other.
It was a major base and on the Soviets target list. When the Soviet Union collapsed, even though Castle closed years later and was turned into a museum, it was still on their list of high priority targets! I assume that Russia finally updated their nuclear war scenarios, but it was interesting knowing that if/when a major crisis erupted and the emergency broadcast system came on, we had literally minutes to live.
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