HolyMotherofGrid (October 7, 2008 at 3:22 pm)

What most people never realized is that it would be totally and absolutely immoral to EVER use nukes, even in retaliation: they are not only indiscriminate killers that attack everyone over a wide area, but they keep on killing and causing misery for a long time afterwards - he ultimate evil in terms of a weaponry! Even if a country were attacked with nukes, they would have no morally valid reason to retaliate similarly: fighting evil with equal or greater evil has always been completely wrong.

PlanckLimit (October 7, 2008 at 9:04 am)

The need to boost nukes into the upper atmosphere for delivery on the other side of the world wasn't the only reason rocketry was studied after World War II. There was a lot of research on global communications beginning at that point with the advancement of early computers as well. Even without nukes, one side would have figured out eventually that the safest place to spy from was in orbit, further necessitating the need for rocketry and early computer guidance systems.

PlanckLimit (October 7, 2008 at 8:58 am)

Aside from nuclear fission for energy, there hasn't been many major technological benefits introduced by nuclear weapons themselves. They're more a by-product of 40 years worth of atomic research. The Cold War was begun over a difference in ideologies and at that point both the US and USSR had plenty of ex-Nazi engineers and scientists, as well as decades worth of international study on rocketry. Russia launches Sputnik; US realizes they're lagging behind and rebuilds the NACA into NASA.

ssjarchon (October 7, 2008 at 5:02 am)

The threat of nuclear counter attack is a form of protection, and so I think the term Nuclear Shield is valid. Also, nuclear weapons caused research in missle and rocketry, as well as advanced space navigation and propulsion. We would most likely have never had NASA, and we would have polluted the world to a greater extent with more fossil fuels.

ssjarchon (October 7, 2008 at 4:52 am)

The weapon is far more noble than the shield. The ability to punish, yet still be punished, is far greater a machine that marches one to responsibility than the ability to be nonpunishable, which grants its user the ability to do as it pleases. Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, is a most effective deterrent in a symmetric war of rational minds. However, nuclear and thermonuclear devices are not practical in asymmetric war, and so sit idle in modern times.

HolyMotherofGrid (October 7, 2008 at 3:30 am)

"Nuclear shield"?????? A weapon which can kill millions in seconds, and which threatens the very existence of our species still, is not even remotely comparable to a "shield", which by definition protects one from attack. So far as nukes preventing the "cold war" from boiling over into active conflict, this is an unproven theory - and on several occasions the world came closer than most folks really want to know, to nuclear destruction.

roxyriley17 (October 7, 2008 at 3:04 am)

what does catching drug dealers have to do with Nuclear weapons? And I don't think anyone said that Mexicans feared America. Obviously they love it cuz they keep going crossing their border. Anyways, nuclear weapons don't do jack. We are in a war right now incase anyone didn't notice. And the whole world has become so tangled in nuclear alliances that if one country sent one atomic bomb the allied countries would launch in defense and so and so forth obliterating the planet. Go Manhattan Project

SVDruganov (October 6, 2008 at 11:56 pm)

i'll tell you something the ämericans o como el espanol los gringos deben de hacer tantas armas so many weapons only to say you are better and you are feird by everyone but no México doesn't feird america they capture 5 drug mafias by day you only look for a kid that have been lost and you capture 1 drugdealer by Year! comprendes pendejo

windhamster (October 6, 2008 at 4:03 pm)

because you are under the nuclear shield of the UK would be my guess. Good Music, though I'm a supporter of nuclear weapons. They created the longest lasting period of relative peace in modern history.

FlankersWell (October 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm)

FORGIVE ME FOR BEING AN A*****E but WEN THE UK IS HIGHLIGHTED IN THE VIDEO, SHOWING WHO HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WHY THE F**K IS IRELAND HIGHLIGHTED TOO?? WE NOT PART OF THE BLEEDING UK!!!!!!!!! SO ANNOYING PPLS IGNORANCE!!