Nuclear Weapons

In this article, Jonathan Schell gives opposing views on nuclear weapons, and what should be done about them. Pro Nuclear's say that they will be made anyway, even if they are "abolished", those who want to make them will. They also claim it prevents conventional war. Others argue that a single mistake in the making of a bomb could destroy a city, a country, or the world.

I don't think that nuclear weapons should be made or used. I think they are mass murdering machines that kill innocence. However, I think that even if nuclear weapons were abolished people would still be making them, so what is the point. If someone is sick enough to want to make one and set it off, nothing will stop them.

When they say it prevents conventional war, there correct, but I question if that is necessarily a good thing. Wouldn't we rather have an army of men that want to fight get killed than millions of innocent people? And nuclear war, for the most part, can take out a lot more people than a conventional war can.