Just a general thought to philosophize about.

Do you think the US will ever use nuclear weapons again?

yes, i do.

i wish i could say no to this, but then i remember who your president is.

The United States still deploys approximately 480 nuclear weapons in Europe, according to a new report by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council).

The big question is: Why are they still there more than a decade after the Cold War ended?, Neither the United States nor NATO has been able to explain a credible mission for the weapons.

I have no president.

I hear we have these "mini nukes" which I would have loved to have seen at Tora Bora, other then that probaly not. Even if New York gets nuked, I think we would respond with strategic strikes. We can pretty much level any country without the need of nucleur weapons, so with fallout as a concern (blowen this way and that) I really do not see a need for it. Maybe if the tunnel gap narrows, it could happen.

Neither do I.

Nope.

I had a long discussion with my husband about this. He is a "war afficianado" and would like to see the US get more aggressive (we don't see eye to eye on this particular topic).

This is just a feeling, but I sense that Bush has shot his wad and he will be completely useless in the area of war and defense for the next 3 1/2 years. I sense weakness in him, I sense he does not have the "guts" to pull out the nukes.

He talks big, or at least he used to, and now he is kissing Big Arab Oil ass...draw your own conclusions. I think he just wanted to be a war time president, and I think he wanted to one-up his daddy, but really, he lacks the vision to really do anything constructive in the middle east...or rather destructive, in the case of nuwkular weapons.

I told my husband that if he voted for Bush, he would be sorely disappointed in his secord term. So far I have been right, he is very disappointed.

I wonder which part of this post will get picked apart first?

My guess: "this is just a feeling..."

Can't help but let my liberal psychobabble hang out...

http://www.bushflash.com/nuke.html

I don't know about nuclear weapons, but I'm a bit surprised Bush hasn't made a bigger push for nuclear energy.

Robots are the new wave of warfare.

The US...no. Smaller countries that have limited military power....maybe.

Are atomic bombs and nuclear weapons the same thing?

I do believe the the US will use NUKES again

Encarta just made me an expert. Nuclear bombs are usually either atom bombs or hydrogen bombs. I'm unsure if there are other types.

Atom bombs split the nucleus of plutonium. A sphere about the size of a baseball produced an explosion equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. That's what we dropped on Japan.

Hydrogen bombs split the nucleus of hydrogen. The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb in a test on Enewetak Atoll, in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean, on November 1, 1952. Its explosive force was about 500 times greater than the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs. Hydrogen bombs are much smaller as well.

I honestly don't think so. Unless for some reason we found ourselves at war with China or Russia.

Or if The Terminator jazz proves true...damned machines!

Don't forget the aliens from Independence Day.

How would the US respond to a North Korean nuclear attack on Seoul or a Pakistani nuclear attack on New Delhi?