Nuclear weapons: A right?

[mannyamador]

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Perhaps history will shed some light on the matter.

The US has been the only nation to use nuclear weapons in acts of war: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But after that, the US seems to have acted quite responsibly, often acting as if it feared its own weapons (with good reason, actually). Other countries have had nuclear weapons and most have acted responsibly. I think the issue in the minds of many governments is the PROLIFERATION of nuclear weapons, especially to unpredictable, often unstable governments.

Of course some would contest that the current nuclear powers have always been responsible or stable. The Soviet Union broke up, leaving the possibility that some nuclear weapons may be stolen or sold off. Some would say that Israel came within inches of nuclear attack (I read that they had already launched their fighter-bombers in the 1973 Yom Kippur War before they were recalled). And how stable is a nuclear face-off between India and Pakistan? And what about the paranoid, xenophobic government of North Korea!!?

This is not a simple issue, to be sure.

[butyokz]

having of nuclear weapons is just privilege for a certain country...

[INFRACTION]

its bad wrong or badong.....

[semahj]

ayos kayo para naay massive deffensive weapon ang country..

[vulture08]

what i think is....It's really unfair to those countries who doesn't have any NUCLEAR WEAPONS.......NW is used to make foreign countries scared....

[erwin_rommel]

what i think is....It's really unfair to those countries who doesn't have any NUCLEAR WEAPONS.......NW is used to make foreign countries scared....

asa may mas unfair ana if ma among ta anang mag buhat2x og nukes unya dili capable mo handle ana responsibly? basig ma ad2 na sa mga pangamongay nga terrorist og sa mga amaw nga taw. naa tuod nukes ang us pero responsible man pud sila mo dala. gamit baya kaayo ning nukes incase naay asteriod nga possibleng mo igo sa atong kalibutan, mao ra gyud ni ang maka pugong if ever ma hitabo na

[SioDenz]

or atu tugutan ang IRAN nga maka baton ug nukes nga ang ilang tuyo ra jud is pag wagtang sa ISRAEL sa mapa, nya ok kaha nah?

[raphz]

i think countries which is a warfreak or war fanatics r those who were prohibited from doing so. the likes of iran, iraq (sadam's era) n korea right now. the question is why do they need it now? for how? its clear enough that they have bad intentions. ther r a threat to every nation there is so thats y they have to b monitored from time to time. some nuclear powered countries right now i think is not a threat.