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  1. Mdear - 18-21 years old - female

    Posted by Mdear Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:56AM

    No. Declaring major nuclear war would be a complete economic disaster, especially considering that the world uses US t-bonds to trade for stuff (oil including); every country's investments would be completely worthless if confidence in t-bills tanked. And that confidence is tied up in chinese, russian, european, and US assets. So, those big countries can't really go to war with one another in the traditional bang-and-boom way unless they found a place to funnel all of that capital. That would take years and years to complete.

    I think little cold wars will become more common, though.

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  2. artbandit - 31-35 years old - male

    Posted by artbandit Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:23AM

    its you again... unlikely... its not so much about who has the biggest bombs...China already owns the world.

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  3. Violet1026 - 22-25 years old - female

    Reply by Violet1026 Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:25AM

    Not exactly. If all the countries were to come together, which is so unlikely, we might have a chance at over-powering them.

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  4. artbandit - 31-35 years old - male

    Reply by artbandit Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:29AM

    explain

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  5. 2horny4myowngood - 18-21 years old - male

    Posted by 2horny4myowngood Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:22AM

    I think so , one angry dictator /. authoritarian leader who wants to send a message to the free world just has to ignite one nuclear warhead for issues to start arising. america would be against whoever ignited the warhead most likely ( unless it's an ally to which we would just wag our collective finger ). but chances our nations in the middle east and potentially china depending on the reason for such a weapon being ignite may side with the " evil " leader. that gets us into a big divide on whether america has the right to tell other nations what to do ...side pile up against each other and we have a situation eerily reminiscent of the crisis that is eerily reminiscent of world war 1 which much bigger ramifications. only difference is nuclear war is serious and if we engaged in nuclear war we can pretty much guarantee the end of humanity .

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  6. Violet1026 - 22-25 years old - female

    Reply by Violet1026 Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:29AM

    Yes, very good point. But what if we were to make use of nuclear substance, instead of using it for destruction? Imagine the new technology that could be fueled by it.

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  7. 2horny4myowngood - 18-21 years old - male

    Reply by 2horny4myowngood Mar 4th, 2012 at 2:42AM

    that's the double edge sword of new technology the fear that the technology can and almost certainly will fall into " evil" hands . I don't feel research should be minimized in order to keep others from finding technology because the fact of the matter is society stays in balance by outpacing terrorist otherwise a terrorist group with superior technology becomes a major threat. I just think in situations such as those it's important to only reveal findings and technological breakthroughs as they occur to hopefully maintain a technological edge...but at the end of the day it's almost impossible to have a 100% contained security rate.

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