Dirty Greek - Nuclear Disarmament

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The situation as I see it is difficult, but clear. NO one should have nukes. They shouldn't exist. Now, we don't live in happy fairy land, so obviously someone is always going to try to make nukes. However, I do think there are a few rules we could follow for a good solution:

1.) The United States and all other nations who are willing to do so should completely get rid of all nuclear weapons. This provides a good example to the nations who might build and use nukes. Face it, the reason Iran wants nukes is because it knows that we, Israel, etc might one day strike. I don't think even the Iranians are crazy enough to just attack another country with nuclear weapons unless it feels threatened by that nation.

2.) Even if another nation or terrorist group IS crazy enough to attack us or someone else with nukes, what good does it do for us to have them as well? We shouldn't retaliate against any country that nukes us with more nukes - what the hell good would that do? How would that fix the problem? All we'd do is kill hundreds of thousands (or millions with current technology) of more innocents. How would that help anything? And if a terrorist group nuked us, it REALLY wouldn't do us any good to have nukes, because how would we respond? Attack the country that terrorist originally comes from? That hardly makes sense

No, the best solution is for everyone who is willing to destroy all nuclear weapons in their arsenals. It's the right thing to do, and I'd bet dollars for donuts that it would deter other nations from building them. And as I said, even if it didn't, it wouldn't change the fact that we should NEVER, EVER, EVER use nukes against anyone, even if their governments attacked us first.