Barack Obama: Reduce World Nuclear Weapons to Zero

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But nuclear weapons have kept the peace for the longest period in human history. It would be most unwise to follow a course of disarmament especially as not everyone can be trusted to do so.
This argument is similar to the one made after World War 1 concerning the limitation of warships. It failed.
Nuclear weapons won the peace, and have kept the peace.
The war-mongers and industrialists would like nothing better than a return to the global carnage and profits created by conventional weaponry.

Rich Fallis of WA 11:53AM February 02, 2009

With Muslim extremists (read Pakistan) in possession of nuclear weapons and trained Muslim suicidal maniacs on the loose, the world is not safe. So let us be fatalistic and hold on to some for MAD.

J C Dhall 8:49PM January 30, 2009

I Think that it is alittle too early to expect disarmaments from Russia, China, India, Pakistan, N. Korea etc etc and who knows when Dingbat Iran will get their bomb....our country needs to be stronger not weaker.....

Steve Roisman of CA 4:59PM January 30, 2009

ha ha ha we told you that in 1980s. our nuclear free legislation was abused by your hawks and now you have seen the light. put away the gun and you wont pull the trigger. nuclear material cant be hidden as it gives of radiation that is detectable from millions of kilometres away. (tachyons,neutrinos) thats is basic physics.

Running dog Peacenik 3:17PM January 30, 2009

If one country or terrorist group successfully hides a few then they will have an enormous advantage. I don't see how this can possibly work.

Scott of MN 1:23PM January 30, 2009

Can anyone say Alzheimer's? Look, it is a wonderful thought, but unfortunately like gun powder, street drugs and abortion - nukes are here to stay.... Well, at least until we're gone.
I know all you Obamatrons want to teach the world to sing, but human nature being what it is, it isn't likely Akmadinjiad, Putin and Kim Jong IL are gonna pick up the tune.
Now, where did I put my red slippers?

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:45AM January 30, 2009

Zero is fine, if it's zero. Fact of the matter is, we're not morally or economically willing anymore to optionally initiate the use of nukes from America on anybody. Russia is not economically willing to shoot them. China likewise is not.
The only people willing to use them are religion-justified terrorists who believe their God has given them permission to vaporize the sinful secularists. That would be the adherents of Islam, whose only deterrent might be their perception of the certainty of swift retaliation from us in kind.
So you get rid of nukes in all Muslim places BEFORE you get rid of America's nukes. Zero might take a while.

Muser of NM 10:35AM January 30, 2009