wombat_21 wrote:Only america may have weapons of md and no other country. Only america may have the right to use weapons of md.
I would like to point out that the United States was not the only nation pursing atomic weaponry. The United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Germany, and Japan were all pursuing development of these weapons. The UK,when their cash and resources ran short, combined their program with the Americans. The Soviets placed a much greater emphasis on their conventional armed forces and thus, their atomic research proceeded slowly. Germany's scientists moved quickly to develop these weapons, but due to errors in their calculations, concluded that atomic weapons would not work. In Japan, the government was not convinced of the feasibility of atomic weapons, thus their research was under-staffed, under-funded, and procceded at a snail's pace. Caldric has been kind enough to provide a fairly current list of those nations possessing nuclear capability in today's world.
As for the right to decide on the use of a weapon, that lies solely with the nation possessing the weapon. America had that right because they were the only one in possession of an atomic bomb at the time. No other nation had the right, because they had no atomic bombs to drop. You might as well ask yourself what gave Germany the right to use the V-2? It was an unstoppable(once launched) weapon that struck without warning. This weapon killed and wounded many, and it's large CEP precluded it's use against anything smaller than a city. At least with the atomic bomb, you could shoot down the bomber carrying it.
wombat_21 wrote:What if russia had dropped an a bomb on berlin? Would the USA have liked that?
The Soviets didn't need to. Not to mention the fact that the Soviets neither had an atomic bomb nor a means to deliver it. From "Russia at War". The quote is from Colonel-General Berzarin, commanandant of Berlin. (from pg 990-991)
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"Our artillery and infantry won this battle. The allied bombing caused great damage here, but it was of no direct military value. The allied dropped 65,000 tons of bombs on Berlin, but it was we who, in a fortnight, fired 40,000 tons of shells at it."
wombat_21 wrote:What gives america the right to decide what's good and what's bad?
Still now childeren are being born mutulated. And it aren't two or three.
If the Atomic bomb was bad, then why did other nations continue with their own nuclear programs. Why are other countries in possession of this "bad" device? And why are still other countries looking to be added to the list of "haves".
If the atomic bomb is good, then why haven't we used it since?
The atomic bomb was not fully appreciated for all of it's capabilities. Even the scientists that worked on the project were not sure of what would happen. In terms of devastation, the fire raids on Japan were more destructive than the atom bombs. As for the lasting effects of radiation, no one would knew about that until years later. Therefore, your quip on deformed children is null and void for this debate.
As for history repeating itself, are we placing bets on when Germany is going to start World War III? I'm sure I got a spare saw-buck somewhere.