by got tonkaed on Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:05 pm
from the reflex personal opinion view....
i dont like them.
They cause a whole lot of destruction in a variety of different ways, and theres really no distinguishing bystander from bad guy so to speak.
from the rationally thinking persons perspective....
obviouisly we need them in the poltical arena in this day and age. Once they have been created, they arent going to go away, and the serve as a pretty strong deterent from time to time. They create the possiblity for economic sanctions, because theres an awful lot of teeth you can put behind them.
reflex reaction....
clearly we shouldnt let proliferation occur because having fewer nukes is obviously better
thinking it out...
we have to accept people are going to build nukes, unless we are prepared to actively stop people to the point of military action...which we arent. You cant wag the finger at someone for using nuclear power, when we have had the spoils for quite some time. We are disarming so we cant stop proliferating in the long run, even if it its bad, anymore than we will stop with emissions even though the kyoto protcol was signed so long ago.