Currently there are nine countries in the world that have a total of minimum 13 910 standard issue thermonuclear warheads, of which at least 3 600 are deployed, which means that only a press of a button and approximately 30 minutes of flight (that much it takes for a warhead to reach any part of the planet from any point, tops) separates You or Your home town from being wiped out from existence. See a video below for a very cool informative and illustrative representation of what it must feel to stand right in the ground zero (Spoiler: this is practically the best possible location to be) when nuke detonates.
Seeing a video, what is Your opinion about:
1. Nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in general. Can their existence be justified? Are they a necessity? How did we even come up to something?
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
Seeing a video, what is Your opinion about:
1. Nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in general. Can their existence be justified? Are they a necessity? How did we even come up to something?
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
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First of all I'd like to point out that in my opinion nuclear weapons should've never been used. There are several things concerning that kind of weapon that we don't think about when we talk about them. It isn't easy to detonate city - if you try to bomb it, then you have to somehow transport that bomb. To give an example - Nagasaki wasn't supposed to be bombed but Kokura. It didn't happen because weather was bad and pilot couldn't see Kokura so they changed their target to Nagasaki. Obviously weather wouldn't be problem at current times, but I am trying to give a perspective here. Now, it is more common to create warheads but they are easy to shoot down. If country is prepared, it isn't that easy to get nuked. I've heard that all nuclear bombs could blown earth out of space. It is true but (if I am not wrong) when bomb explodes it often vaporizes most of the explosives. In Japain's case "It’s estimated that only about 2% to 4% of the uranium in the bombs were converted into energy by the chain reaction.". Another thing is that noone needs country destroyed by nukes. If you want to conquer country, you don't wipe it off the earth. Not to mention that, these days, the first country that will try nuke other will get nuked by every other country.
I wouldn't really care much about it. It is more about creating fear rather than actully doing it. My opinion on that is somehow relevant to previously stated insight on this case.
It is very hard question because on the one hand, we as a society have huge impact on everything (positive as well as negative) but on the other hand I feel like it is very hard to change anything - like e.g. environment. Everyone knows we are slowly destroying everything around us but we still do it. In case of nukes, everyone knows they are "bad", so we don't really need to declare that, but we should make authorities be aware that public opinion dislikes nukes.
Lastly, out of 193 countries in the world, only somewhat 20 of them have the technology to combat in the nuclear warfare. Many will just have no option other than watch a warhead obliterating them. At most they will be able to hide authorities in the underground bunkers.
I think they wouldn't shoot it down above important areas - in case of Warsaw I guess bye bye Piaseczno. Obviously I am kidding about Piaseczno, but I am sure they would make nuke detonate above fields or something. Still it would be devastating but in our history we were heavily destroyed without nukes, so I think it is more about war itself rather than weapons.
I generaly agree with you, but I'd like to point out that out of 193 countries there are many countries that from our point of view are meaningless. It is 20 countries out of 193 but still these are 20 countries that are prepared for this kind of war. Statistically, it is like 3 countries per continent - it doesn't have to be USA sending rockets to save us from nuke. It could be France, Germany or UK (not sure if it is actually them with technology but I'd take a guess)
2. I tend to be a little paranoid, sometimes I can't sleep because I read an article about meteorites and I'm afraid that one will fall into my room -.-' that's why if I knew there is a slight possibility of getting nuked I would seriously consider moving. But on the other hand, I don't think that it is a real threat, at least not in Europe. People would be too scared for one bomb to start a chain reaction. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there once was another order to fire nuclear missiles. In 1983, 6 missiles were detected approaching the Soviet Union, fired from the U.S. Stanislav Petrov, commanding officer at the nuclear centre, decided to ignore the order, speculating it is a false alarm, which it was. Due to his decision, we probably avoided WW3. I hope that the majority of people in a chain of command would think twice of such a move.
3. No, as I said before we cannot get rid of all of them. There will always be at least one country that will hide it and then get an upper hand. But I hope we can at least regulate it. Set a limit or make insane laws to make those weapons almost impossible to use.
Weapons of mass destruction like nuclear weapons and fusion weapons are one of the worse things people have discovered. I believe they should never have been created. I need to hate myself, other people and the world to use it. It was to be a necessity, and now it has become an object of terror and fear.
We invented weapons of mass destruction because we were still striving to achieve a better position during wars.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
Well, I would probably feel scared. On the other hand, can we escape from crazy people and shirts in this world? Only such people can take my city as a target. My city may be on this list today, not tomorrow. We do not know how true and current this list is.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
I think it would be hard. At present, Poland does not scare us with such things, so protests in Poland would not be justified. People who influence the presence of atomic bombs run a very aggressive, undemocratic policy.
I understand how it happened that nuclear weapons exist. During WW2 every side of conflict wanted to have a bigger and more powerful weapon than the others so USA decided to go crazy on subject and create an ultimate weapon. Nobody shouldn’t even exist on the first place – but already happened.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
Well, I think that there is not much to do when your are on a target list. At least one citizen can’t do anything. I guess that if I live in Warsaw that means my city is already on a nuclear target list. If there were any signs of an incoming nuclear crisis I would probably have to make a decision to leave Warsaw and move to any smaller city. My hometown would be my first choice for sure.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
That depends. We might have our protests and antinuclear events but let’s be frank – global leaders might say that they agree and they are going to get rid of those weapons but what’s the difference if we will never know if that promise is true.
2. In my opinion there is not much to do in such situation.
3. I think only big protests could change something but its still unikley to make it happen. Too many countries have nuclear wepons and it would be extremely hard to get rid of these all at once. Using nuclear wepons is considered immoral but still not many world leaders care.
2. What can I do? What did you do, I am interested?
3. Yes, I think when all the world comes to it’s senses and there is democracy in all nations possessing nuclear weaponry - then we can try. But today it’s not just impossible, it’s unreasonable.
Of course, everything is rethought when there is a conflict in your country, especially with such an adversary as Russia. A couple of years ago, when the situation was very tense, one wrong or reckless decision could lead to war, although I love my country, but I understand that we wouldn't have any chance without strong outside support. And who knows maybe nothing of this would have happened if we had nuclear weapons, maybe Russia would not have risked, knowing about the availability of nuclear weapons in our country, who knows ...
I think that this is impossible, at least until the conflicts in countries such as Iran or North Korea are resolved. As well as less serious conflicts in other countries.
I think that only the most influential leaders can decide about such weapons. These kinds of weapon were produced because that is the ultimate argument for a country to convince other to its right.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
I have nothing to do about it if my home was in a strategic object for bombing. I would hope that there is no man which is decision-making that want to start a WW3. If there was real threat I would flee the city and go somewhere where it would be safe.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
I don’t think that regular citizens have an impact on such decisions. We can’t forget that every leader wants to be the most powerful and every country wants to be able to fight with others when there is necessity. So I don’t think the leaders are willing to resign from the nuclear arsenal.
1. To me nuclear weapon is the reason we live in a "peaceful" world. Right now no super-power can afford having a open war, as nukes would simply destory the whole world, which is no ones intention.
2. I don't think it really matters. As I mentioned above no one wants to destroy the entire world and therefore, whether the city is on the list or not it is safe.
3. I don't think so. No matter what we do coutries such as Russia or USA will not get rid of nukes from their arsenal. I also think that if it somehow happened there would be another war on Europe's territory.
I think it started as interesting research, which evolved into such a big problem, which we have now, From one side existence of such massive weapons cannot be justified, but they are working as a prevention things, no one wants to start a war against countries, which have nuclear power.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
I would feel a little bit stressed out and look very closely for world politics. Moreover, I would try to change the place, where I and my relatives live.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
First of all, I am not sure if there are still any manufacturing process for nukes. Also, I think regular citizens won't have any impact on decisions about nukes. I cannot believe, that the USA or Russia will decide to get rid of them such easily.
In my opinion nuclear weapon should be eliminated from existence. As the author of the movie said, it only needs one person who's in charge and crazy enough to do it to start a warhead war. Telling people that we them only just to threat not use it's definitely not a solution
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
I think that I would prey and hope it wouldn't happen. There's not much to do in that case. It's between staying there and taking the risk or move somewhere else.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
I really hope it's still possible, but I'm not sure that people in charge wants to give their leverage until everybody does.
It isn't necessary. In my opinion, the possession of such weapons in any country should be strictly prohibited. It carries too many consequences.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
It depends on the context of the situation. If there was a significant threat to bombing, I would move to a place where such a threat would not exist. However, until there is no such threat I won't do anything about it.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
Of course, yes, by joining in strength we can do everything :)
2. My first reaction would be to run as fast as possible from there and contact my closest family and friends about potential danger.
3. I don't think it is possible at this point simply because of the fact that goverment tend to hide information from public and tend not to listen to anyone about any topic.
1. I think they are not a ncessity. They should be prohibited, because the repososability of using it is huge. In my opinion if one crazy person, starts a nuclear weapon against another country it could be an end of the world which we know.
2. I would feel unsecure for sure. Probably I would live normally, because what else I can do, I would not move to another city or I have no power to change it.
3. I think we can not do antyhing about this. In my opinion it is a problem of our common future, but as I wrote, we do not have much "moves" to change it.
I think that existance of nuclear weapons i justified. The new technologies often are created for the army and it can speed things up to apply it to civilian useage like in nuclear powerplants. The necessity of it is much more complex. I think that nuclear weapons should be banned because they threaten the existence of humanity.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
What could i do. I would feel bad about it and in case of danger of beeing whiped out from the planet probably would try to be as close to centrum of an impact as possible.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
Some steps are made to try to do this that way. To ban the nuclear weapons but i guess at this point its not possible to get rid of all of the nuclear weapons on earth. They are still very powerfull weapons and having them cause fear.
They are not necessary, but they are inevitable. They are not evil and can be useful all depend who have access to them and how they are used for example theoretically meteorite that can destroy Europe without nuclear weapon we can’t do anything but with them we at last have some chance but there is also in another problem with them we can also destroy whole life on earth and destroy ourselves.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
I wouldn't care it’s not like I can do something about this if the war with the use of nuclear weapons really breaks out, then probably everyone will use it and there will not be a safe place on earth. I don’t plan to change anything in life for the reason what if…
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
We can do nothing we can only scream and cry and nothing will change. There is already ban on biological and chemical weapons but nothing changed countries still use them and research them in secret from time to time there is leaked news that one or another village was destroyed using banned weapons and then these powerful countries only talk how this is immoral and how sorry they are and then do nothing.
I mowed to Warsaw :) However, it is on another list for bombing, of this time, another leader.
But today it’s not just impossible, it’s unreasonable. -- Pretty much sums up the long lasting debate about getting rid of nukes. Everyone agrees to that but nobody wants to be first.
No, weapons are not necessary in general at all, at the end we all going to die. How did we even come up to something? Easy question.. money. power. not to realise what the life is all about. PS. no, it's not about money. look at the KFC, he is the making the most money while he is dead. so for what, and the nucs and the weapons are the same... for what tho??
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
Screw it, make love not war.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
nope. money talks not us.
If Ukraine still had them, using them against Russia would not be a wise decision. Everybody sees that in the war this country does not stand a chance. And provoking other world leaders with warmongery is of most stupid moves possible. This will render Ukraine stripped out of all possible and theoretical allies. And being nuked back.
2) Well, I couldn't care less. Chances of it happening are so low that there are hundreds of things that are really bothering me ahead of that list. Hence I would do nothing. With that said, though, it also means someone deemed your city to be important enough for it to be nuked, I guess you can also feel proud about it.
3) You can try, but I don't think this is a good idea which can only occur to someone who lived in a country that was in peace so long they don't even understand why their country was peaceful for so long in the first place. Empirical data suggest that countries that get rid of their nuclear weapons tend to regret it.
2. Well, I couldn't do much. Only thing I can think of right now is either go to some safe place or just accept it...
3. In my opinion for now not at all. Everyone of us know that nuclear weapon is very bad and dangerous and we still didn't do anything. Even now there is an agreement between countries to somehow limit these nuclear weapons, but no one knows what the truth is and whether countries really comply with this. Even I think I have heard recently that some countries have broken these rules so...
2. Why do you think that your city is the target? As I wrote in the first answer if someone uses the nuclear weapon it is the end of the world, not the city.
3. This has no sense. Why should we strike the nuclear weapon if it works for our peaceful future.
1. Nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in general. Can their existence be justified? Are they a necessity? How did we even come up to something?
I think that their only use can be the destruction of dangerous objects in space or the fight against aggressive aliens if they exist.
2. How would You feel if You found out that Your home city is on the target list for strategic objects bombing on a map of some world leader? Mine is :) What would You do about it?
It certainly wouldn't be a nice feeling but unfortunately I don't have much influence on the decisions of world leaders regarding their war plans.
3. Do You think that we, regular citizens, can have an impact on declaring nukes immoral and banning them from further usage and manufacturing? Is it even possible at this point?
I think ordinary citizens have no influence on it and despite the protests they are unable to get to the secret plans of the government. Even despite the government's assurances of not working on nuclear weapons, I don't believe they are telling the truth.
In my opinion, atomic bombs shouldn't be constructed just like any weapon. Unfortunately, this is not possible these days
because power comes first. It would be nice for the world to unite and build a better tomorrow together.
If I found myself bombing my city, I'd probably run to the shelter. All in all I don't know how I would behave, but
I do not think about that :). I think so, the first argument is that there are more of us, the next argument is that we create the world
not people's gart. If people had united, there would be no problem
2. I would run away with my Loved Ones as soon as possible. I would leave my house and city.
3. Because it is most powerful weapon in the world i sadly doubt it would be completely eliminated. The biggest problem of nuclear weapons is that no country will remove it completely if others wouldn't do the same.
2. I don't know if I could do anything. There will always be a place that could potentially become dangerous. I believe that what's going to happen is going to happened.
3. We, as ordinary citizens, have nothing to say. Even if some countries chose not to have atomic weapons, the powers such as the USA, China and Russia would still have the weapons.
2. Mine is not.
3. Not possible.