Nuclear weapons risk distresses Americans

Nuclear weapons risk distresses Americans

But does it distress people enough? Why is everyone only concerned about nuclear weapons getting in the hands of what Bush has told us are terrorists? Sure, that concerns me as well, because they have been pushed to the edge and have taken to radical extremist methods of getting their point across. However, shouldn't it also concern people that the US has such weapons? I am happy to see that some people within this article did feel such concern. I mean, should such powerful weapons be in the hands of a country such as ours that, by definition, could be termed as terrorists? (I mean the real definition, not Bush's definition that I believe includes the phrase 'of Middle Eastern descent')

We should be working towards an end to all nuclear arms, including the US. Sure, one could argue that we need them for defense. I must question, though, how useful as a defense such weapons would be after somone makes a nuclear strike against us? If that country plans to make a strike and do so in an attempt to defeat a nation as large as ours, it would be an attack of immense proportions. There would be no one left to press "the button".

Now, getting serious, would we really even use them, or are they more like a big 4x4 truck for an inadequate man? While there are a lot of unethical people in our nation, I believe that after we learned the effects of such attacks after WWII, we could never do such a thing to any other living being on this planet. If we did, I can assure you I could never call myself an American again.

I raise my glass to rational thinking and the elimination of all nuclear weapons. 'Mine's bigger than yours' doesn't get anyone anywhere.