Occhidiangela,May 5 2005, 08:27 AM Wrote:Communism is one such idea, in terms of dangerous, but the one that scares me more is the "silver bullet" idea that both drove nuclear weapons development and deployment, and the current quest for "a tactical nuke that isn't too poisonous to the environment since it will explode mostly underground blah blah blah."
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It is a blessing and a curse that nuclear weapons bring so much radiation and contamination with them. Otherwise their use may have been far more prolific. Sometimes collatoral damage isn't an issue leadership worries about.
Arclight missions, fuel air bombs, carpet bombing, nuclear artillery shells, cruise missiles -- without the "dirty" part of nukes I fear they would be used far more regularly. Also, they would be cheaper to make because you wouldn't need to spend money on containment, shielding, waste storage, etc...
edit: Just to add, I know arclight missions, fuel air bombs, and carpet bombing all use conventional munitions, but substituting nuclear ordinance for those missions would be scary.
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