<p>I really want to submit this to my school's newspaper and this is the topic: Nuclear War</p>
<p>What are your thoughts/opinions on Nuclear war/Using nuclear weapons?</p>
<p>Both are stupid but if any one country can have nukes then every country that wants them should be more than welcome to have some as well. None of this five nuclear weapons states junk.</p>
<p>Actually, the USA and Japan are considering a more viable alternative to nuclear energy, seeing that degradation of nuclear power plants over the years. This is not related to a … nuclear war … but another thought on the unlikeability (?) of nuclear power in the world. You can watch this video sponsored by BigThink, where Michio Kaku (String Theory co-founder) talks about this.</p>
<p>That’s a rather broad subject. It would suck to be anywhere near one. The usual fictional description ran “and the ones who died in the blast were the lucky ones…” I’m old enough to recall the duck & cover drills in grade school and the CONELRAD civil defense broadcast drills. My personal preference would be to either be VERY VERY far away (Australia?) or within the CEP of my local ground zero.</p>
<p>Seriously, there is a Cold War’s worth of serious scholarly and popular writing on the subject. Pick a particular period of conflict and address how nuclear weapons influenced the policy choices. Or the current options/opinions on how posession or atetmpt to posses weapons affects US actions and policies in, oh, PAK/AFG, Iran/Persian[Arabian] Gulf, Libya, etc…</p>
<p>Arguably, nuclear weapons limited the conflicts in Korea & Vietnam, and put an upper limit on how far the US and USSR would go in confronting each other; resulting in an emphasis on proxy conflicts rather than direct engagement of superpowers and WW3 (although we came $DEITY-close during the Cuban Missle Crisis, and some folks who should have known better advocated using nuclear weapons in Korea and Vietnam). Go research what George Kennan wrote about containment, and contrast to the policies available for dealing with nuclear and near-nuclear powers with a history of hostility to US, US allies, and US interests (N Korea, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan in particular). </p>
<p>Or you could examine the role of nuclear weapons in popular culture, fiction, etc. Read - (don’t limit yourself to the movies) “On the Beach”, “Failsafe”, “Dr. Strangelove”, “The Bedford Incident” are all classics. Martin Cadin’s “Almost Midnight” and more recently, Clancy’s “Hunt for Red October”, “Red Storm Rising”, and “Sum of All Fears” are more popular techno-thrillers on nuclear terror or superpower conflict in the nuclear era.</p>
<p>I could go on and on, but in general I believe nukes should be regulated.</p>
<p>After writing a ten page research paper on the use of nuclear weaponry during World War II, I can honestly say that I support the use of nuclear weapons by developed countries as long as other forms of less-impactful action were taken prior to the use of the weapon. In other words, as a “we’re close to the final straw” type of deal, I 100% agree with the use of nuclear weaponry.</p>
<p>@clarkk I wrote a 9 page paper on World War II and nuclear weapons too lol</p>
<p>@FantasyVesperia It’s so interesting! I literally fell in love with the topic after that. It’s my favorite.</p>
<p>@clarkk I know! I did like 3 pages full on just my opinion lol. My teacher hasn’t graded it yet, but I hope I did well on it.</p>