Nuclear combustion. Is it a good thing?

Do you as an individual think we can make it past the next 50 years without some sort of Nuclear war?



As technology marches forward and more powerful technologies become increasingly prevalent, it%26#039;s only a matter of time before high school students have the materials necessary to construct a nuke or stronger in their physics lab room. Granted, that point%26#039;s likely more than fifty years off, but my point%26#039;s simply that we can%26#039;t suppress advanced weapons forever.





In some sense, global culture will have to adjust to be one that better handles the ability of one individual to bring about huge amounts of damage to all others.




Just like any tool can be used for horrible things, Dr. Einstein had horrible misgivings about his work after the military built nuclear munitions using his work.





Truth be told that if we simply consider how much good we have obtained through diagnostic and therapeutic radioactive material in medicine, it%26#039;s quite astonishing. Virtually every thyroid workup will involved at least and I 123 diagnostic scan or a I 131 therapeutic treatment for any hyperactive thyroid issue. Until only the past few years, before recent advances in MRI, the only way to look into the body to look at physiology was, indeed, radioisotopic imaging.





The entire country of France runs nearly on 95% nuclear fissionalble material and has done so, without incident, for over a decade.





With absolute monsters at the head of many countries any technology can be misused, but then the US was the first to use this unprecedented technology in war.





The truth is it%26#039;s very hard to convince the public that we%26#039;ve made huge strides in the engineering of nuclear power plants and assure the public that they are safe from terroris whowish to sabotage these wonderful, wasteless resources.




We%26#039;ve gone further then that so far, and it%26#039;s been more of a threat in the past. I honestly can%26#039;t see anyone being stupid enough to push that button and it%26#039;s not even worth a second of worrying about.





*edit Even the haters have someone in charge who knows there%26#039;s only one reaction to a nuclear attack.




No! Because I think there are to many unstable folks on the planet who have short tempers and no impulse control and would blow things up with nuclear weapons!


It%26#039;s scary possibility for all of us, and the environment too!




Assuming we don%26#039;t piss off the Iranians and the North Koreans too much, and they don%26#039;t just give up all pretenses and nuke each other for the hell of it . . . yes.


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