[sschueller]

Interesting is also the hysteria coming from the US wenn the US is the only nation that ever dropped a bomb not once but twice on a population.

The rest of the world should be demanding the US get rid of its arsenal as the US can't be 'trusted' with them. As they have proven they are willing to use them.

Maybe not todays president or the next but are the checks and balances strong enough to prevent a future president from dropping another bomb?

[girvo]

Truly, I feel the cat is out of the bag at this point. Too many countries, the largest most powerful ones in the world have nuclear weapons. Even if they could be persuaded to get rid of them, the knowledge would exist still, and could be rebuilt rapidly. I despise nuclear weaponry, or any weapon of mass destruction, but at this point there are conventional weapons which are nearly as powerful, or at least just as damaging (and not as costly to build, so they can be used more). Nuclear weaponry scares the living daylights out of me... but I don't see them ever going away, nor the possibility of us blowing ourselves off the face of the planet disappearing either.