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Zero nuclear weapons : Comments
By Scott Ludlam, published 12/8/2008Spurred on by campaigners, the international community has banned chemical and biological weapons. Nuclear weapons must be next.
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The idea was to get all your forces together and throw as many and as much as you can until you or the enemy folds, this strategy was always thought up and conducted by a general who sat kilometres behind the lines clean and cut off from the carnage of the battlefield, often remembering days of glory when he was a commander in some minor campaign here or there.
However with the advent of nuclear arms and quick efficient methods of delivery to any place on the planet the generals in charge were no longer cleanly removed from the battle, now if the enemy was placed on the back foot he could send an a-bomb to your home town and kill your family. It and other new technologies forced a rethink of the way in which wars were fought and can be argued that the threat of mutual annihilation was the only thing that kept the cold war cold.
Nuclear weapons should be destroyed; they have no place in our world now. But we must be sure that we do not return to the days of cannon fodder wars that lasted for decades or centuries because we have taken away the biggest stick in the arsenal.