i would say its not. all of these countries have nuclear weapons. india, pakistan, great britian france, russia and china. and can all destory the world.
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Just because they CAN destroy the world doesn't mean they WILL destroy the world. Let's say God came down upon you and said he would destroy the world at your command? Would you do it? NO.\n\nOkay back to the question. I think America's belief in every person is created equal and should have equal opportunities for happiness, etc, etc is going to lead to it's downfall. Have you noticed America is importing more and more thing from places such as INDIA AND CHINA? Ya know how you always see everything marked: "Made in China" Places with rising economies that pays it's workers like five cents an hour for factory work. In America the minimum wage in most states is about five DOLLARS an hour. And has anyone noticed the national dept lately? Do you think we're ever going to be able to pay it off while policing the world? To make a long story short: Eventually China is going to take over the title of world superpower.
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Russia 17,000 \nUnited States 10,000 \nChina 410 \nFrance 350 \nBritain 200 \nIsrael 100 \nIndia 70 \nPakistan 44 \n\nThe above are operational and deployed nukes.... \n\n"How bad" are these weapons....depends.\n\nDepends on the kiloton yield of the detonation (ie, tactical or strategic), method of delivery (ie, ground or air burst), and number of detonations, \n\nIn a full scale nuclear exchange between the superpowers (Russia, US or China), in the first 30 minutes, 1.1 billion souls will be lost.  Another 1 billion will die from radiation poisoning.  This will mostly be in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan.  The Northern Hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.\n\nEventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere where all plant and animal life would be extinguished in two years.  Those surviving will have been in deep shelter with enough water and food to last for two years....not very many, i assure you.
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America is clearly seeing its own interests and is supporting a country who will be able to help them in future. And clearly  this country is india and not pakistan since india is stronger economically, technologically, militarily and is becoming an important global player. This has nothing to to do with peace in the Indian subcontinent or with ethics.
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It's ridiculous that one country would assume it has the right to tell another country not to produce or have the same weapons it has. I don't understand why any of the people concerned are so stupid: I mean, if anyone ever did decide to deploy nuclear weapons, we'd ALL die...
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We never encouraged India. In fact we are not especially happy that they have nuclear technology. However here is the difference. \n\nIndia, a thriving Democracy. A relitively free society. A responsible nation that would not use nuclear weapons without dire provocation. A nation that can be mostly trusted not to sell these weapons or through negligence allow these weapons or materials to make them fall into terrorist hands. \n\nIran, making a first stab at Democracy but suffered a severe set back in last elections. A very regimented society bereft of many freedoms Westerners take for granted.  An unstable government leads a nation with a president who actually claims the Holocust never happened. As bad as Western leaders have been in the last 40 years there have been none that were openly delusional like this.  Iran has ties with terrorist organizations and it's Gov is riddled with terrorist sympathizers. It is almost certain that nuclear weapons in Iran or even the materials to make them if the weapons did not exist would fall into the hands of terrorists. Even if the Gov honestly attempted to stop it, there is too much support for terrorism in segments of Iranian society to stop such theft. \n\nIn short, India has the bomb life goes on as always. Iran has the bomb or even the materials needed for one, at least one major city will be blown up killing at least 2 million people. After which a war would start that would likely erase man from the face of the planet. \n\nIslamics somehow thing they can use biological and nuclear weapons and not see their own children if not the entire race wiped off the planet. Why this I would love to hear. More so I would really like to know why ANY Islamic could possibly believe it was safe for any person in the world if most Islamic nations posessed biological or nuclear weapons.
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I don't think if we have nuclear power, space technology, and good IT professionals, we should tell the country is superpowered. Our(Indian) realizations is very poor. We have every powers/means we need to make us super power, but we are not using them correctly. We are more interested in growing individually, rather than growing as a nation. When we all see that everyone of us has enough and sufficient means in life for peaceful life, we would rather say that day that 'India is GREAT', house of all super power! I hope you will agree with me.
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In reference to another post there is no working star wars program in place, we are just as vulnerable to a missile attack today as we were fifty years ago, now the likelihood of a large scale nuclear attack is much much lower without the soviets runnin around, though it is always possible that by some computer error that a launch will take place from either us or the russian silos, afterwards if we don't convince each other that it was a mistake it would probably lead to a full scale nuclear exchange, now that covers the U.S. and Russia, but don't forget the other nuclear nations out there such as Pakistan and India which are pretty much where the U.S. and Soviets were twenty years ago, so on that side of the planet I would say within the next two years that there is a 20% possibility of a nuclear exchange barring any massive change in policy or major event such as some sort of military incident betweent those two countries. It is possible that there could be a nuclear device smuggled and detonated in the U.S. by some terrorist organisation but that would not lead to a nuclear war, unless the perpetrators of such an attack posessed a nuclear arsenal. Let me just say that with today's great technology a nuclear device does not have to be any bigger than a briefcase and with lax border control and nearly unlimited funding for terrorist organisations in addition to lack of intelligence on nuclear material around the world it is very possible that some terrorist organisation may suceed in detonating a device on American soil. Let's all hope that never happens
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I THINK THAT YOUR COUNTRY'S DIRECTION IN THE NUCLEAR AGE IS DEPENDANT ON HOW THE PROGRAM IS BASED AND IMPLIMENTED. HOW IT CAN BE GUIDED AND MONITORED FOR SAFETY VIOLATION'S AND UPGRADES. I DO NOT WANT FOR YOUR COUNTRY TO GET UPSET AT CURRENT EVENT'S AND STRIKE ONE OF IT'S ENEMY'S WITH A NUCLEAR WEAPON JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE CAPABILITY.
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Threat to humanity?  Yes.  Waving around nuclear weapons and making threats can have ill effects on EVERYONE IN THE WORLD.  The world powers have a stake in the interests of the middle east. OIL.  Iran is power crazed, prideful and hateful.  They have a lot of the worlds oil and now they can make nukes.  No wonder North Korea and Iran are buddies.
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I am thinking that we should stop being racist and arrogant.\nI am also thinking that we are not in charge of the universe.\nI am also thinking that if we have the right to have nuclear arms so should they.\n\nAfter all, we are not better than anyone else.\nAfter all, Iran is far less dangerous than the US ehich already has its own nuclear weapons.\n\nIn the last 50 years Iran has attacked exactly zero countries. In fact, through US enccouragement it was attacked by our former clients, the Iraqis.\nThe US has attacked Iraq, Vietnam, Guatemala, Grenada, Korea, El Salvador, Cuba, Panama, Egypt, and the list goes on.\n\nMaybe we should get rid of our own nuclear weapons before we ask others to do. We dont want to be hypocrites, right?\n\nBy the way, Iranians have never claimed or said they are developing nuclear weapons. Only the US has made this claim. And I sure beleive what W and Cheney say, right? ;-)
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America has negotiated with every country on the planet at one time or the other. USSR, Korea, China, on and on... Have you ever heard of NATO, the United Nations, NAFTA?  \n\nNo; America is not afraid of India, it is just the opposite. They feel that India is a mature peaceful nation and is supporting the advancement of their nuclear programs.
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If told that some countries had nuclear weapons you would barely even bat an eyelash as you know that the country would use that technology for defence purposes only, such as Canada.  Other countries with this ability would make you sweat blood.  Giving Iran nuke ability is like putting a madman in a crowded shopping mall with a machine gun.\n\nIran is now testing very advanced missiles that have nuke capabilities........you better be bothered.
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Wrong Buddy. Remember you have some crazy people who will do anything to get a nuke in their hands. Anyone from terrorists, to warlords. The civilized world, notice like the US, France, Britain, and so forth, use their nukes as a deterrent. You know u nuke me, I'll nuke you back. Crazy countries like Iran just wants nukes to WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!! So therefore, it is in the best interest of the civilized world that certain countries contain and hold nukes.
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i belong to india,theres a lot of gossip about ww3 over here,\ngenerally people say here that it will start bcoz of india and pakistan and then all the major powers taking the two sides,china ofcourse will take the side of pakistan,as it seems india as a major threat to itself,russia is seen to support india bocz of its good relations,and usa though has good relations with india is seen to support pakistan bcoz russia will naturallly support india so as go to do reverse.
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No. Lots of countries have WMD.\nWhat are we waiting for, let's get N. Korea and Iran!!!\n\nIt actually WAS our duty to act as the police of the world but now it is not since we are not moral anymore--I.E. torture of prisoners, locking them away without trials or lawyers or telling them the charges, etc.\n\nWe no longer have the moral high ground in the world.\nWe are no better than a third world country morally now.
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Man, tell me honestly, do you really want Iran to have nuclear weapons. Forget your equality crap and think logically, do you really want Iran, who wants to kill you, to aquire nuclear weaponery??\nAlso, I think you're a bit misinformed since Pakistan has had a nuclear weapon program since the '70s, claimed they had the technology in the early '80s, and it's main supplier was China, NOT the US.
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It is a possibility.  There are a few countries, including India and China, which are starting to gain in power and strength.  This is a good thing for world stability.  It is unhealthy for one country to be the ultimate superpower and to think it can run the entire world.  Increasing power gains by other countries will challenge the US and "put it in its place."