Would the world constantly be marred by major wars had it not been for the development of nuclear weapons?
374290
I think the russians would have took most of Europe if not for the nukes
1136195
Two years.  First, war it would only be in the Middle East and Sub-saharan Africa.  The apathetic world leaders would sit on the sidelines while the world struggles, but soon after those areas are completely devoid of any decent human beings to murder and terrorize, violence would spread thoughout the world, eventually comsuming everything.
1154427
Nope.... to much fighting.... and thats not including war :-P\n\nNo matter what you do someones gonna hate you... I couldn't live with that.\n\n\n------------------------------------------------
710902
No there wouldn't be world peace.... but a lot less fighitng.
1027721
We are always facing the possibility of WWIII. They have been ready for that reality since the last world war. The problem is that the world has been at war with itself for centuries. Its only when it happens to you that you take notice. Power and greed are the players and the sides are whoever has the most or the illusion of the most power. But you know what is said about the big guys...The harder they will fall. Boom baby.
78229
Whatever the answer be, a war is NEVER justified by the progress that science could make due to it... \n\nthink about the people who died because of the bombs, toxics, radiation, bullets...\n\nI've heard that some progress was made on the field of artificial blood...among others
68529
There will always be war because people will always disagree.  Religion, politics etc....
587227
no!!!!!  Many nukes, and a new beginning, with slugs being the dominant species!!!  \nThe U.S. is making a lot of enemies...if WW3 ever kicked off, we'd be in the same shit as everyone else, because our poor leadership has made a mockery and an evil thing out of democracy!
380024
War is usually about the most wanted commodity.  The most important commodity I can think of is Water.  So if I had the resources and the evil nature, I would go after controlling all the water supply world wide.  This is the ultimate power ... but I'd need to hire real smart scientists to figure out how to separate the people from my new water supply that only I control.
990054
If men had periods, a nuclear war would have surly broken out by now.
224801
During that war the entire country was turned into a weapon making machine.  Things were made in almost every factory that existed.  To name all of those would be a huge project.
415489
Yes, but we hope and pray this may not happen.\nWorld wars or even major wars started with some of the ff. sequences: prejudice, bigotry, greed, social divisiveness, an upsurge of national or patriotic fervor, then internal political upheavals, war pacts and peace agreements, military buildup/escalation, interior cultural or ethnic clashes, economic blockade, consular debacles, political/electoral intervention, military intervention (training, advisers, military hardware, support), an open war, multi-theater wars, one, two thermal bombs...
653861
Yes. Samuel Huntington in his "Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" describes this notion in greater detail.\n\nHe divides the world into seven civilizations (with the Western culture having the largest conflict against the Islamic culture, the others being the African, Sinic, Eastern European, Japanese, and perhaps Latin American), each with different heritages, experiences, and beliefs. The different countries will cluster together and these different cultures will be the main actors in the future of warfare and conflict--no longer the state. Each culture will have a pole (main country) which will direct the trajectory of the civilization.\n\nThe gap between cultures will be the basis for conflicts and could be more deadly than traditional wars because they stem from fundamental beliefs.\n\nBut check out the Clash of Civilizations for more info. It's a compelling read.
465734
...the concern of society.  Without respect all of mankind would destroy eachother.  No one could get along and everything would quickly fall apart.  Eventually, leading to the end of human existence with... lets say nuclear war.
327550
The world's been in a state of constant destruction since man first appeared. Battles and wars and diseases have always plagued the earth. And they always will so long as we're still  around.\n\nEvery generation think their world is going to hell. Gunpowder, TNT, nukes, etc. But common sense and self preservation ultimately prevails. Not to sound cheesy, but Hope was the very last thing to escape Pandora's Box. We have it for a reason.
582131
Unfortunately, there has always been war, and I have no reason to think that the world will ever be completely free from it.  There has never been complete world peace and I don't think there ever will be.  \n\nI'm not of the doom and gloom mentality, I'm just realistic.  And if you're the least bit religious, then you know that this world is corrupt and total peace will never exist here.
352350
We would simply all be screwed.\n\nHoping that Nuclear war doesn't happen, US would probably be in an alliance with Brittan, France, Russia, Germany vs. some new threat, like the Middle East (I MEAN NO OFFENCE TO ANY OF MIDDLE EASTERN DESCENT OR OF THOSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, I MEAN IT SIMPLY AS AN EXAMPLE. An example of a region who has slightly different views, and is not completely out of the running.)