Nuclear war and the world

Change landscape, make lands radioactive, add more cancer cases,

After the warheads have gone off, people die, melt, vaporise or whatever and after that, some mutant tribes will be formed as only 1% of the world human popualtion survived! They will have minor skirmishes between eachother for years and years. The nuclear dust and radiation will dissipate and the mutated human tribes will die from the new natural habitat. Nature shall rule supreme again and forests and grassy fields will grow upon the once radiated fields of dirt. Man shall be gone from this earth for all eternity and the circle starts again only not homo sapiens sapiens will evolve into the capacity to think, but it will be the allmighty species of rabbit (although that isn't a name for the species i think) and the rabbits will overrun the world and kill all others who oppose them just like man once did. Not even the wolves and bears will survive against the "Allmighty Rabbits"!!!!!! Dum-dum dum-dummmmmmmmm.....

Believe me, it has been scientifically proven that this isn't just a wild theory!!!! And, i wouldn't be surprised if one of the rabbits would sacrifice himself to press the button of the first nuke!!!!!!!!! dum-dum-dum-dummmmmmm...."Be aware of the of the ones who lurk in the forests with long ears, for they will be the doom of man"!!!!!!!  That is a quote that Kong-Fuzi, Jesus and Mohammed have stated.

What, pro-nuclear people??? Are you all wacky?

Actually nukes are a very large peacekeeping force in the world. If it wasn't for nukes the US and the Soviet Union probably would have gone to war during the Korean War. Costing millions of lives and millions of dollars. Don't underestimate the diplomatic leverage assured mutual destruction can bring.

Janus, Soviet Union was not officially involved in Korean War, although they covertly sent some Migs manned with Soviet Pilots for diplomacy's sake. China was. The Soviets did not even vote against UN military intervention in Korea.

General MacArthur actually wanted to drop something like 10 nukes on China, but American government rejected his crazy ideas.

I hate Oppeneheimer, his ugliness needs to be burst open.

......but if we invaded China and threatened to topple all of communism, how neutral would they have been. Also the US wasn't officially involved in afghanistan but rambo was there.

Actually it was mostly truman who rejected MacArthur 1, although with good reason since the man was an ass. I think he had an idea of using nuclear bombs to bust up beachheads so marines could land with minimal resistance. (They didn't know about the cancer causing aspect yet.)

1. I know truman technically counts as the government so I'll give that one to you.

Going back to the original question...

It's not likely that nukes are to be used again... how ever, since there are so many of the damn things around, its there's an outside chance that a terrorist or someone nutty could let one off - - - Russian had enough nukes to blow the world 4 times over (so i saw in a doc.)

At this period China was practically a SOviet puppet state, the reason why the Soviet Union did not get move involved was the threat of nuclear war.  Nukes have saved more lives than any force ont eh planet barring medical practitioners.  They prevented me and y family from being wiped out in what would have been a far more bloody invasion of Japan in WW2, they prevented the Korean war from exploding out of control, and they have prevented war of Cuba.

To think that the world would be better off witout nukes is a lack of historical perspective blinded by idealism.  If nukes had existed i the posesion of the major powers of pre-WW1 world, there may have been no WW one, and hence WW2 and many others after that.