7 in 10 Americans believe Iran has Nuclear Weapons

[NKAJ]

Mr Khan said:

NKAJ said:
Intresting,I personally think that all nukes should be destroyed,why? Mainly because in my opinion theres too great a risk of some extremists taking control of a nuke and using it to wreak havoc on some city,this would then probably start of a series of events that would end in war.

Nukes help keep the peace, generally. You don't attack a nation with nuclear weapons, and nuclear-armed nations (who are also generally the strongest in the world in conventional capabilities, too), haven't openly fought each other at all so far ever since Nagasaki, except India and Pakistan.

 

More advantages than disadvantages, as long as they are kept away from completely unstable regimes (who wouldn't be able to fund them in the first place, likely enough)

Perhap they do keep the peace but then countries can just fight proxy wars.The major western countries (USA,U.K and so on) are powerfull enough conventionally to destroy any threat from another country (although Russia and Chine would be pretty tough).However with nuclear weapons the balance of power is suddenly altered.If for example ,an international terrorist organization took control of say Irans nucluer missles and launched them at the US.WHat would the US do in return? Would they return fire at Iran even though it is the work of terrorists not an actual goverment?What could they realisticly do to deal with the situation?