NationStates Jolt Archive

Bush and Putin. Because I'm correct USA and Russia have had and still have hundreds or even thousands nuclearweapons. Personally I think even back on the coldwar days that was really stupid because even if you think massmurder of millions of people was neccerity, why did you need thousand. For example if USA had "only" 100 nuclear missile and the Russian over thousand, would the Russian go: Da DA we kill every american and all the people on the western hemisphere, but the American only kill 96 % of the Russian population, so lets start a nuclear war.

And I think it get even more stupid after the coldwar why don't stop the risk of the Acopalypse (even if it is very little), by for example lowering the number USA and Russia have with 50. Becuase they could still blow any countrie or countries to kingdom come and USA as the only superpower could even do it with regulare weapons.

and what of the others with the bomb??

and what of the others with the bomb??

Exactly. It's only a matter of time before Britain blows everyone up.

I mean, I'll get elected eventually.

But nukes kept and generally keep the peace. Without them we would have have WWIII in the fifties.

But nukes kept and generally keep the peace. Without them we would have have WWIII in the fifties.

It's the baisc principal of Mutually Assured Destruction. Everyone's like "I have the bomb, don't touch me!" So then someone else is like "Oh yeah, well I just built 2600 more nukes than you! Take that!"

It's a lot like the International Incidents n00bs, only with a lot less 1337 and more Russians.

Nuclear weapons are stupid. They are used to stop stupid people from starting stupid wars. It's a nessecary stupidity.

Hiroshima, for example. Lots of dead innocent Japanese civillians. It also stopped the war.

A stupid situation that ended through stupid, though possibly nessecary, means.

It's too late to get rid of them now or the 'bad guys' will have the only ones. It's all so stupid.

I think every country should have at least one nuke. It might help stop WWIII.

I think every country should have at least one nuke. It might help stop WWIII.

*scratches head*

W....T.....F....

and what of the others with the bomb??

Well from my understanding USA and Russia is the only country who have enough nukes to blow up the world and not just big parts of it. And no one have answer my second why do you need so many? Because I would think that you don't need 5000 nukes to scare someone you may only need 50 or even less. Look at North Corea, India Pakistan they only got a few but no one still wants to mess with them if they get global range missiles for them.

Bush and Putin. Because I'm correct USA and Russia have had and still have hundreds or even thousands nuclearweapons. Personally I think even back on the coldwar days that was really stupid because even if you think massmurder of millions of people was neccerity, why did you need thousand. For example if USA had "only" 100 nuclear missile and the Russian over thousand, would the Russian go: Da DA we kill every american and all the people on the western hemisphere, but the American only kill 96 % of the Russian population, so lets start a nuclear war.

And I think it get even more stupid after the coldwar why don't stop the risk of the Acopalypse (even if it is very little), by for example lowering the number USA and Russia have with 50. Becuase they could still blow any countrie or countries to kingdom come and USA as the only superpower could even do it with regulare weapons.

The US has around 2000 deployed nuclear weapons, and a lot of those are not on missiles. They must first be loaded on aircraft - a step that takes additional time and makes the weapons vulnerable to attack.

The possibility of a nuclear war between the US and Russia is dramatically lower than it used to be because most of the nuclear forces are not on an alert posture.

The odds that Pakistan and India, for example, will engage in a nuclear exchange, is far, far higher. And it's probable that each has far more than 50 nuclear weapons at this point.

Something else to think about. The US alone has detonated hundreds of aboveground nuclear bombs. The Russians have done the same. France and other nations have detonated nuclear bombs aboveground.

That's probably more than 1000 aboveground nuclear detonations.

I've noticed that the apocalypse hasn't happened. And we're not glowing in the dark.