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Nukes are way scarier than you think
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any country that has used nukes on another country should be permanently banned from having nukes even if it was like 80 years ago, it's just fair
Honestly, every country should be permanently banned from having nuclear weapons. The horror that even one, let alone the tens of thousands in existence today, can inflict is so unimaginable that I don't think any country can be trusted with them. Especially with how fallible humans and humanmade systems are— the likelihood of a purely accidental apocalypse is larger than is healthy to think about. I know it's an idealist position as nuclear powerhouses will never disarm and the US would probably do a second Manhattan project if there was no fear of nuclear reprisal.
How would this ban be enforced?
It couldn't be. Even with inspectors stationed in various countries the incentive to be the first to rebuild nuclear weapons would be too high.
It was a rhetorical question, but yeah. Nukes exist and while there is literally any global tension whatsoever nuclear disarmament is an absolute fantasy. Until then the world is safer the more countries developed nukes cause America's allies have em or may as well. Deterrence works, evidence is that the Cold War is over and Noeth Korea remains un-invaded. But speaking of Korea, McArthur really really wanted to nuke them and the option wasnt even on the table for Vietnam cause America could get nuked back.
I don't like em, they're devastating beyond imagination, but without actual world peace, nuclear disarmament is a fairy tale. And as the masterpiece film Miami Connextion says: "Only through the elimination of violence can we achieve world peace "
Exactly. I should watch that movie.
Highest tier of good bad movie. A group of Tae Kwon Do practicing orphans live in a house together and are also in a band called Dragon Sound which has full entire songs in the movie that are genuinely really good new wave tunes despite the subject matter being whatever theyre up to in the movie at that point. They need to contend wirh a coke dealing biker gang led by the brother of one of the members who's dating another which the biker leader is mad about to a weird level, rival band managers and the ninja gang that ckntrils the drug supply. Everyone in Florida knows martial arts but not acting and its amazing. I have the soundtrack on vinyl and its in rotation, the songs are fucking sick.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmSLfsef1eCex_BcFoTWLF3gPrDhfsSIr