Nuclear weapons.?

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im not offended wes and so what..im with you on that.go wes.

Bealzebub

Your right, but most countries with it are stable and would only use them as defensive weapons. There's a good degree of possibility Iran would use them as an offensive weapon, as in know they can't defeat the West, but they have the ability adn teh will to do a lot of damage before they lose. For them knowing that will give them further cause to try it out.

Steve C

You ask what the problem is.

Iran's leader has said publicly that he would want to totally wipe Isreal off the face of the earth, and now they have nuclear weapons.

Go figure...

dallas

most countries that have them do not have a history of giving money and other weapons to terrorist groups. with this history, the chances are astounding that they would give a nuke to an organization who could use it without suffering consequences to their country, ability to trade, or other consequences that countries face. basically, the nukes probably will end up in the hands of people who will use it and have nothing to lose. they claim no country, have no military to retaliate against, and could use the weapons and then run into a cave and probably get the country that the cave is in bombed to hell.

Oracle

America used nuclear weapons when it was the only way to end a war. If they had not used them many times the number that died would have been killed on both sides.

Since then quite a number of countries have acquired nuclear weapons. Israel for example had at least seven in the early sixties and has many times that number now. But for all the countries that have had nuclear weapons up until now the world has recognised that their leadership recognise that they are simply an ultimate threat and unusable until the very foundation of their country was threatend.

Iran however is a totally different probelm. Thier leader is believed to be a known terrorist that was part of the group that hijacked and blew up aircraft in the desert.

Iran is known to have bankroled and armed Hezbollah and supplied the longer range rockets they used. It is suggested they even directed them to attack Israel this time in order to start the conflict again and take the spotlight off Irans nuclear issue! It is a paymaster of many terrorist organisations includiing al Qaeda.

It is the first country in the world to look like it may obtain an atomic weapon that the rest of the world really fear would use it!!

It is believed Iran may well use any nuclear device they obtained even if they knew their own country would be wiped out in retaliation.

Even before they get a nuclear weapon the fear is that for a country arming and funding terrorist organisations it would be easy for them to provide radioactive material to terrorists to make dirty bombs.

If you really believe that there is nothing wrong with Iran having nuclear weapons I suggest you start building a very large fallout shelter and stocking it with provisions ready for the upcoming nuclear holocaust!!!

l3londe_l3imbo2001

its not what they have its how and when they choose to use them.

bob kerr

The reason that the UN and the world are against Iran having nuclear weapons is that, not only do they support terrorism, but that their government is considered unstable in relation to their neighbours. No one would deny them the right to nuclear energy as long as they agree to inspections by the UN which, everyone else producing nuclear energy is obliged to do. Their President has also declared that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth.

keefer

I don't understand why any country would want to acquire such dangerous weapons, but looking at it from the Iranian point of view, they see their arch enemy, Israel, with nuclear weapons. I don't think that Israel would ever use them, but if I were Iranian I would feel nervous. The Europeans and the Americans do not want to see nuclear proliferation in the world. Neither do I, so why don't we start removing nuclear weapons from our arsenals? What is the point of having them if we are never going to use them? The Iranian leader has said that he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the planet - very diplomatic - but would they really consider using nuclear weapons to achieve that aim? It would mean destroying Jerusalem and other sites of huge religious significance to Islam, not to mention many hundreds of thousands of fellow Muslims. I can understand the fear of people who are concerned about these weapons ending up in the hands of fanatics whom could possibly detonate such devices without a care for anyone except their own twisted ends. The more countries that develop these weapons, the greater the likelihood that this could happen, which is why I come down against the Iranian decision to defy the world community.

Veritas

I'm sorry, but your question really doesn't deserve a considered response. Not everyone has them, thank God. In fact, the Americans invented the Atomic bomb, so why did they let anyone have it? It is amazing how Iran, with others, have no time for the west, but they are quite happy to take advantage of our technology (the infidel) when it suits. They are an unstable non-democratic theocracy, which supports terrorism and wants to wipe Israel of the face of the planet. Does that answer your question?

In a perfect world no one has nukes but its not a perfect world. Nukes in the hand of countries like Iran is like matches and children! Iran has already made the statement Israel should be "wiped off map"! Where you don't allow a 12 year old to drive your car (hopefully) you don't want Iran with nukes its that simple!

grassland44

Wes. Nuclear bombs were devised(invented) during a time of war and used aggressively just once,which ended the second World War bloody quickly. Since then,some 60 odd years have passed and no-one has used them as a form of attack.
Preventing people from having them is the same way as making sure that they go all out to get them!
I do not believe that any country has the balls to use them as a first strike because it's a surefire way towards self-destruction.

Rabbit

Every one has a right to them? How is that? By what yardstick?

This is like saying every baby has a right to a rattlesnake. Every toddler has a right to real, loaded gun. Every horney boy has a right to a girl. Every nearly-blind great-grandmother has a right to a fast sports car.

I'm not happy that the ones who have them already can be trusted to keep them well. The South Africans were right to expunge their system of nuclear weapons at the thoughts that leaders like those of their neighbors might politically prevail. An Iranian leadership such as exists today has no more right to nuclear weapons than an enraged highway driver has a right to an M-1 tank on the freeway.

Nuclear weapons are not necessary for any country. Iran harbors and supports terrorists worldwide. Therefore it is not OK for them to have weapons. If they kill all terrorists, then they can apply to the world court for nuclear powerplants, medicine, etc, Never will a middle eastern country be OK to have these weapons.

Larry R

Cos we know the horror that they cause. It's kinda like, everyone's got them so they don't have to use them. A country that aquires them with no prior knowledge of the horror of Nuclear weapons is more likely to use them.

FozzieBear

So what if the drug dealer on the corner has a gun? Everyone has them, so why not him?

Do you get it now?

True. I couldn't care less about who has them to be honest. Everone knows if you fire a nuc you're asking for trouble.

cantcu

Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, and if they did they would have no way to deliver them!

Iran has an Absolute Right to nuclear power under the NPT and we have all seen Bush and his chronic lying before!

Israel doesn't even belong to the NPT and the US is violating it as Bush fails to disclose our weapons!

ALAN Q

If I were to choose which countries were to have them and which should not.....

Hmmmmm.

Let me think.......

Murderous, unstable, bloody minded moslems who want us all dead, orrrrr

US.

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