just to point this out: the threat of nuclear annihilation has had an incalculable positive impact for the state of the world since 1945. If they did not exist, there would have been at least 4 (Berlin Airlift/Korean War/Cuban Missile crisis/Vietnam War), probably 5 (China-Russia split in the early 60s) and maybe even 6 (US-Russia relations in Reagan's first term : "the Evil Empire) major fullscale conflicts between world power-status nations in the last 65 years but the aura of terror provided by nukes prevented the leaders of the respective countries from acting rashly and made them talk it out long enough to come to a satisfying agreement.
Now I am totally for reducing the number of nukes out there and I also support not developing them anymore, but regardless it cannot be denied they have had a major across the board positive impact on the nature of state-vs-state warfare. and by this I mean they have effectively eliminated it on all levels, conventional or otherwise. This has bought us enough time to develop a truly global economy for further deterrence (for example, if China somehow managed to take out the US without incurring any damage, they would still be taking out 35-40% of their export market in the process), precision weapons that cause few or no collateral casualties, modern communication technology, and a lot more. I'm not saying we wouldn't have done so otherwise, but it is far from a remote possibility that we would have not. For example, imagine if Charles Townes (born in 1915), the guy who invented the laser, had been killed in Operation Coronet or a much larger-scale version of the Korean War...
Again, I fully support Obama's decision here though I don't think it was the best idea to tell everyone about it (though I do understand why he would want to) but anyone who says nukes have done nothing but bad is just plain wrong
Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it
