I was thinking, what if in the long run, the invention of the nuke will save lives. For one it acts as a major deterrent to war. We already saw this once in the cold war. Nukes probably prevented major military actions between US and Russia. This could same effect will very likely repeat itself in history. Also, in WW2, what if dropping those 2 bombs saved Japanese and american lives in the long run? Japan made it very clear at the time that they would never surrender and would fight to the last man. With out the nukes we would of had to invade and loose many many people on both sides. It is quite possible that that invasion would of taken a far larger body count then those 2 nukes.
Just idle speculation. Whats your opinion on this?
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2004-09-11, 11:52 PM
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