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MyLine: GuillotineNuclear weapons ruin the art of warfare. Date published: 7/19/2005
What happened to the good old days of warfare? Soldiers fighting hand to hand, canons recoiling and running over people, knights in shining armor battling other knights in shining armor, choreographed advances and other such things marking a great battle. But now we have nuclear weaponry. And as a good friend of mine once said, it's like cheating in a video game. Nuclear weaponry has never really gotten us anywhere. It's completely unfair to anyone we use it against. Instead of just losing an arm or a leg, they get cancer, or some horrible genetic mutation that leaves them in a lifetime of pain. Personally I'd rather lose the leg to shrapnel or gangrene. Not to mention, as it's pretty commonly known, during the Cold War we created a mass amount of nuclear weapons, along with the U.S.S.R., in an attempt to be the bigger, stronger superpower. So, now the U.S. and Russia have tons of nuclear weapons and other countries are trying to build them. This is a recipe for disaster all because Einstein got the bright idea to further our species. So what do we do? I suggest we go back to the old days. The old days where if a man offended you or your father, you asked him to a duel, not a war. Where a fight was carefully choreographed, where one fires after the other. And where the idea of a bomb was as foreign as the idea of women's liberation. Of course, this might not work. In fact I'm rather sure it wouldn't. Too many casualties to contend with, and I don't think soldiers would be too interested in learning how to dance as a part of their training. But regardless, the problem of nuclear weaponry goes beyond what I have discussed, to the problems of nuclear waste, cancer, mutations, genocide in the name of war, and the ultimate problem: If we use another nuclear bomb, will that trigger enough bombs to end the world? Is that a risk we're willing to take? I'd like to think not. I'd like to think that we're better than that, and I hope that our country never decides to take that risk again. Plus, who wants to deal with nuclear radiation when you can't even get nifty world powers out of it?
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