Is There a Solution to the Nuclear Predicament?

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The difficulty in finding a solution to the nuclear predicament may make it easy to assume that there is none. If there is none, the best we can do is to muddle through, paying no special heed to the nuclear predicament , hoping it will all come out in the end.
But can we take effective action to avoid the choice of war?
There may be factors in the human situation that so limit and influence our choices that, over the long term, the choice to go to nuclear war, whether that war be between the superpowers, between a nuclear power and a non nuclear power , will almost certainly be made. There are three factors that make nuclear war vitually inevitable. First, humans are gentically predisposed to agression. Second, the interests of nations unavoidably come into conflict, resulting in war. Third, national leaders continue to choose policies that are not effective in avoiding war. Do these factors show that nuclear war will almost certainly be chosen whatever we do?

 

i dont know if i agree with you there, maybe the non nuclear power against a nuclear poer wpuld happen, but i dont think a nuclear power would nuke another nuclear power, one of the instincts of man is to survive, an they arent going to live very long if they do that.

 

A small nit, humans are genetically predisposed to stupidity. Agression is solely a symptom of it.

The only solution is for mankind to start thinking and abandoning weapons of mass destruction and looking to make this hovering ball of rock a better place for all mankind. But alas, I know better than to hope for such a time.

 

personally my view is that everyone should let off their weapons at once and get rid of humanity. It was God's worst ever idea

 

@Shell -- that's odd, I've always considered God to be man's "worst ever idea."

@Faragon -- A person isn't predisposed to stupidity, but unfortunately people are. So the best way to get people to start thinking would be to send everyone to their own rooms to think about what they've done.

I wonder how long I can keep this whole 'reply only with paraphrased Nietzsche' motif up.

 

I believe that no country will ever use a nuclear weapon in any situation other than another world war. The countrys of the world would never allow such atrocities to go unnoticed, and all neutral states would ally against the power using nuclear weaponry. therefore, the only situation where nuclear weaponry would be used would be when there are no neutral states with much power. (ie. a world war)

--FenixStrife

 

In a Utopic world, every country with nuclear weapons would just decide one day to scrap them all. Then they would destroy all those weapons and the threat is gone. In this world however, if such a solution was implemented, it would result in everyone of those countries claiming they had destroyed the nukes but in reality they have hidden them in a bunker. That would archive 100% nothing.