Nuclear verses conventional bombs

[TERRIBLETOM]

I was listening to a talk show on the way home and a male caller asked the host "what is the reason for not using nuclear weapons" Well, while being intrigued by the questions I was also thinking to myself where has this guy been, I understand depending on the size of the nuke you would only need one as compared to maybe 50 conventional, maybe someone has a better ratio. But there are also environmental issues if not to that country but others surrounding, Nuclear fall out and sickness for one. Aside from the known visual destruction maybe someone has some knowledge on environmental and human recovery.

[WhiskeyPapa]

I think the main reason we don't use nukes is because if one country uses them, it makes it easier for other countries to use them. We don't want Pakistan and India using them, so therefore we won't use them in Iraq.

Kind of like we don't want to open Pantera's box.

[ArkiStan]

Originally posted by kb0wwp
Kind of like we don't want to open Pantera's box.

damn...that must be one noisy box!!

Originally posted by TERRIBLETOM
I was listening to a talk show on the way home and a male caller asked the host "what is the reason for not using nuclear weapons"

because they kill many people. I tihnk a better question would be, "why do we use conventional bombs?"

[irwin]

Originally posted by ArkiStan

Originally posted by kb0wwp


Kind of like we don't want to open Pantera's box.

damn...that must be one noisy box!!

LOL.

[TERRIBLETOM]

Originally posted by ArkiStan
I tihnk a better question would be, "why do we use conventional bombs?"

Why do cops carry guns?

[ArkiStan]

Originally posted by TERRIBLETOM
Why do cops carry guns?

don't try to fool me with your little trick questions!

[johnnymk]

http://www.ki4u.com/survive/

[blueindian]

Originally posted by kb0wwp
We don't want Pakistan and India using them, so therefore we won't use them in Iraq.

you think? it was widely reported in non-mainstream news that we used tacticle nuclear weapons in afganistan! that's what makes it kind of scrwed up that we try to tell other countries they can't make nukes. we have a freakin stockpile of big nukes(that we've only used twice) and a bunch of smaller nukes that we probably have used.

[sbp]

Originally posted by blueindian
it was widely reported in non-mainstream news that we used tacticle nuclear weapons in afganistan!

non-mainstream news *chuckle* and you believed them. Where's the proof? Seems funny to flay into the US without evidence.

It is just a matter of time before a nuclear bomb is used somewhere. Pakistan and India both nuclear powers in particular are problematic. Pakistans president recently alluded that nuclear weapons would have been used against India troops in the recent crisis there. Now Musharraf says he was misquoted. :sure:

These scumbag terrorists would love to let off a dirty bomb.

[Hunny]

Originally posted by ArkiStan

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Originally posted by TERRIBLETOM
Why do cops carry guns?
----------------------------------------------------------------------don't try to fool me with your little trick questions!

[mojo]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Yup... Pandora is sittin' over there goin'

and yet the band pantera has that noisy box!

but in more ironic news: here's a quote from the movie "mystery men"

Mr. Furious: I'm a Pantera's box you do not wanna open!

Casanova Frankenstein: It is "Pandora."

Mr. Furious: Please don't correct me, it sickens me.

[Cantacuzene]

We didnt use nuke sin afghanistan. No nuke has been fired in anger since 1945. Thank God.

[Joshua]

I love tactical nukes! See "Starship Troopers" "Nuke 'em Rico!"

LOL that movie rocks. Come to think of it, it could have been filmed in Afghanistan! Maybe that's where the "Non mainstream" media got the idea!

[Grimm]

Originally posted by ArkiStan
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because they kill many people. I tihnk a better question would be, "why do we use conventional bombs?"

Bzzzzzzt! Wrong answer. Conventional bombs kill many people too, and we still use them. That's the whole point. Kill people and destroy property. That's how you win wars.

Nukes are not used because they contaminate property. We nor anyone else can use the land or surrounding area for decades in the case of a tactical warhead, or millenia in the case of a normal nuke. Any victory won by large scale nuclear war is a phyric victory. There is nothing left to win.

Another great reason not to use them is that no one wants to be the first. We all know what happens to the first nation to launch warheads, they get a full scale retaliation. And that would suck.