by The Original Maverick

Created on: February 06, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

In a nuclear exchange scenario, one must remember that to further escalate such an exchange would cause serious irreversible damage to life as we know it. I do believe there are certain conditions that would spur the use of nukes but also feel that after the initial exchange, cooler heads would have to prevail. First off, nobody wants to annihilate all life on earth. If the weapons were used, it would be to impose will on a threatening enemy or it would be a retaliation to a terrorist bombing. If a city was taken out by terrorists in the United States, surely, Tehran and Damascus would not exist in the morning. Now, just because Cincinnati is gone along with Damascus and Tehran does not mean we would keep it going. Alot would depend on how an enemy reacted to the American counter punch.

In the old Cold war scenario, it was MAD. Mutually assured destruction. The Soviet Union and America so scared of each other that they could not afford to stop until it was to late. With the advancement of America's technology and power now as the earths lone superpower, that scenario has changed. Nobody wants to take on America, there is no point. I'm afraid it would come to crazed ideological strikes which would devastate The world and America as well but not end it. Anyone responding to our response would not be a sovereign government wishing to be extinct by morning. I can see the nukes being used but they would be like Hiroshima, a tragic reminder of what could be. If North Korea was crippled by a nuke strike, the world would go on. If it occurs in the Middle East, the price of oil would go up 10 fold. The world would still go on. Maybe the horse would make a comeback but the world would go on.

We all needed the lesson of Hiroshima which has done well to avert a strike since then. I fear that the world is coming to another point where we will have tragic examples to remind us. The world would change forever if nuclear war was fought but even humans realize they could not continue on with it. Any strike would be to show and remind us , like Hiroshima that this must be averted at all costs in the future if there is to be a future.

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