[EDIT: please pretend that the poll is worded like this instead:
Do we need the nuclear deterrent?
Yes
No
! ]
I believe that nuclear weapons are horrific, and that the indiscriminate genocides of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wrong and unnecessary.
But I don't have enough faith in human nature to believe that if we all got rid of them, it wouldn't end up either with more World Wars, or with some nutters secretly developing them again and destroying their enemies. I see them now as a necessary evil, and now that they exist I think we may as well continue to hold the minimum warheads possible to ensure the deterrent remains.
CND and a lot of hippies disagree with me (I'm a hippy so don't take that sentence the wrong way!).
What do you think?
Do we need the nuclear deterrent?
Yes
No
! ]
I believe that nuclear weapons are horrific, and that the indiscriminate genocides of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wrong and unnecessary.
But I don't have enough faith in human nature to believe that if we all got rid of them, it wouldn't end up either with more World Wars, or with some nutters secretly developing them again and destroying their enemies. I see them now as a necessary evil, and now that they exist I think we may as well continue to hold the minimum warheads possible to ensure the deterrent remains.
CND and a lot of hippies disagree with me (I'm a hippy so don't take that sentence the wrong way!).
What do you think?