Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel

[loco]

"Open a history book and you'll see what the modern world looks like without nuclear weapons. It is horrible beyond description."

"So when last we saw a world without nuclear weapons, human beings were killing one another with such feverish efficiency that they couldn't keep track of the victims to the nearest 15 million. Over three decades of industrialized war, the planet averaged about 3 million dead per year. Why did that stop happening?"

"But zero weapons is a terrible idea. As bad as they are, nukes have been instrumental in reversing the long, seemingly inexorable trend in modernity toward deadlier and deadlier conflicts. If the Nobel Committee ever wants to honor the force that has done the most over the past 60 years to end industrial-scale war, its members will award a Peace Prize to the bomb."

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1929553,00.html

What say you, getbiggers?  Discuss.  

[Dos Equis]

I guess mutually assured destruction works? 

[T-REX007]

Detente

[bears]

interesting point.  just goes to show you can point to just about any horrible thing and illustrate how it has created something good.  that is why we can rationalize doing just about anything.

[loco]

The time between WWI and WWII was just 21 years.  It has been 69 years since WWII and we haven't had WWIII.

Since WWII, we have seen many wars, but none between two super powers or between two developed nations.  Could this be because of nukes?

[T-REX007]

War with nukes is unthinkable,  even Hitler would have understood that had he seen them used, Stalin understood it, Kennedy and Khruschev proved it with the Cuban missile crisis fiasco

Could somebody be that insane to start a war and use nukes ?  Hopefully if it did happen someone would rush in and make sure it was limited and didn't get all out of control

[JOHN MATRIX]

Interesting point...however the true long term effects have yet to be seen. Its only been 69 years since they came about...in the big picture thats like a blink of an eye. If several hundred years go by without a major conflict due to their deterrent effect, then we can start talking