Do you think nuclear war could happen in our life time. ( Archived) (19)

Hi, I think this is a subject I have yet to see brought up in the forums, I can only shutter to think that it could happen, as long as nuclear missiles exsist there is a threat of this happening.
There is many natural threats to our daily lives, but in the hand of man kind this could be the most lethal and probal from of whipeing out all of life as we know it.
What do you think of Nuclear War.

You're kidding right? Do you follow the news at all?

i think it was einstien that said after they dropped the bomb in ww2 that they would fight the next war with sticks and stones

As long as there are people dumb enough to use them, than yes I think it can happen. So many nutjob leaders out there that are trying to get it (and already have it) that its a lotto on whos gonna use it first.

Even though the bombs are around, and almost all coutries have their own stock piles, I don't think any one would use them unless it was a last resource to be pulled.To many bad side effects and radio active stuff that takes centuries to go away. Right now, we are worried about north korea, our country thinks that they might sell a nuclear weapon head to the terrorist.

I could care less who North Korea sells the warhead to, unless the country is Iran. Iran is the only country with the delivery methods to make one truely viable without toasting themselves and one that's remotely close to hostile. At that, I don't feel they'd even sell it - they'd probably trade as they're working on things together to extend rocket distances.

If one goes airborne, there's enough other countries with the nuke and I'd go so far as to say nuclear holocaust would insue.

i think your right the fact that so many other countries have them is the only real deterrant

What I am most confident in, should it ever get to that point.. is our nuclear superiority. We are one of the top 3, both power and range-wise that exist in the world. If it starts, we'd definitely end it.

Humanity has been fighting wars for thousands of years. But it was less than 60 years ago that a new weapon of unprecedented capacity was first unleashed, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 4 and 6, 1945. A new era of mass destruction had begun.
At the end of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, accepted Japan's unconditional surrender. Aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri, General MacArthur summarized the danger and the choice facing humanity in this new era:

Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be the way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.