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Nuclear Weapons: Destructors Or Saviors? - Online Papers

Nuclear Weapons: Destructors Or Saviors?

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When one thinks of complete and total annihilation, the plumage of an
infamous mushroom cloud is undoubtedly an image which comes to mind. This
ominous image is ". . . a tiger which must be looked in the eye," (Looking the
Tiger in the Eye, 1982). The reason for which we must examine the issue of
nuclear weapons, is best stated in the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer, ". . .
until we have looked this tiger in the eye, we shall ever be in the worst of all
possible dangers, of which we may back into him." In an attempt to prevent
ourselves from backing into this proverbial tiger, we will discuss the following
subheadings of nuclear arms: should countries dismantle their nuclear arms; ...

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no more bad guys. What? Exactly! How can we eliminate
the evil side of humans, their inherent dark side? This leads to the reason
supporting the maintenance of existing, and the development of future nuclear
weapons. When a nation, terrorist group, or someone with ill intent secures
sole-control of nuclear capabilities, the world will be at the mercy of this
group's sanity, since the world is currently nowhere near an acceptable
defensive system. So from this scenario, one can infer that in the present, the
only deterrent to nuclear war is the existence of nuclear arms in opposition to
each other.
The second subheading, whether a nuclear war can occur without
escalating into a victorless, nuclear holocaust, is an evolving argument due to
its dependency on modern technology. The two stances on this topic are known by
their acronyms of NUTS and MAD (Nuclear Utilization Target Selection, and
Mutually Assured Destruction respectively). The position taken by NUTS is ...

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