Cooperation with evil - nuclear weapons

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I wouldn’t bother with this one. I’d look up a description of the RAND Corporation, its origin and purpose. There were a number of think tanks and institutes to help military planners devise strategies. Nuclear weapons, even the lower yield variety, are simply not worth using.
 
Ok. I bothered, years ago. Still have it, though I think I gave it to my daughter. She has several of my books on nuclear weapons and politics/strategy.
 
We cannot ignore that nuclear weapons exist.

And if they exist, and they do, then we must think about them.
 
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate military targets, Hiroshima being the headquarters of the 2nd General Army, under Field Marshal Hata, responsible for the defense of the western area of the Home Islands, home to around 45K military at the time and port of embarkation for forces going to Kyushu. Nagasaki was the principle city on Kyushu, and a military industrial production center, primarily Mitsubishi plants. And the island was the destination of the first landings in the Home Islands, Operation Olympic, scheduled for less than 3 months in the future.

Though legitimate military targets, the destruction of the military assets was not the primary goal of the bombs. That was the will of the hardliners on the Supreme Committee for the Conduct of the War, to continue the war, to a more advantageous negotiated peace. The bombs, through the economy of scale (one plane, one bomb) in producing the severity of damage that was anticipated, targeted the will of the controlling clique in the Japanese military. Successfully, given the Emperor’s reaction to them…
 
President Eisenhower used a nuke to end the Korean War.

He ordered a nuclear warhead fired from an Atomic Cannon and then ordered a bunch of Atomic Cannons shipped to Korea.

Shortly thereafter, the North Koreans and Chinese stopped shooting.

The nuclear weapon was fired just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.

It was on television.

Google YouTube Atomic Annie

There are books you can buy.
 
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President Eisenhower used a nuke to end the Korean War.

He ordered a nuclear warhead fired from an Atomic Cannon and then ordered a bunch of Atomic Cannons shipped to Korea.

Shortly thereafter, the North Koreans and Chinese stopped shooting.

The nuclear weapon was fired just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.

It was on television.
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Nope. I spent the entire ICBM period of the Cold War having fun. I didn’t think about them but I did watch the beautiful contrails of the B-52s flying overhead. Didn’t lose a minute of sleep.
 
Nor did I lose sleep. My child, in the age of ICBMs, does think of them. It’s a job.

I do wear a B-52 cap, from time to time.One of the many programs I worked on, D, G and H models.
 
The Cold War is a walk through Hell as any war. That it continues in policies is the truth that only totalitarian regimes can “win” a Cold War. Take the Iran uprising. Despite the best efforts of a people who wish to be sovereign the monsterous policies of the lunatics running the asylum will take and choke freedom at it’s core. Any attempt for Iran to form a government by the people will see state terrorism in neighboring states to be certain “the other side” will not get a foothold in a new governance. Maniacs claiming, of course, to do good and support the national interest. Tyrants looking to keep bleeding the poor and down trodden so that the pretense of the “democracies” they live in can exploit other people.
Mutually Assured Destruction only assures one thing. The souls of all those involved are assured of destruction.
What policies in the former Soviet Union are not promoted by political parties in the U.S. today? The list is very short. Godlessness does not have to be followed by “communism” to be what it is.
 
Your post is very confusing. There are good guys and bad guys. Do we allow the bad guys to invade, much less destroy our country? What is totalitarian about India and Pakistan? Both have nuclear weapons.
 
No there are all kinds of reasons to institute totalitarian measures and stating North Korea has a right to acquire nuclear capabilities to “level the playing field” as is accomplished in this thread, unopposed, indicates what cards can be played to institute such measures in accordance with Machiavelli. There may be contexts in which portions of this theory could be applied in accord with faithful reasoning, but these would be extremes and unhelpful. Accepting proliferation does not fit into any of these scenarios. Non-proliferation was, is and will be the only acceptable path, that path which Jesus, in His Mystical Body, has made clear. And rational thinkers who disagree with the church also agree with non-proliferation. There is no rational argument for any other path. Any other path is based on irrational fear, is a plague and a parasite of God’s joy denying His mercy, and leads to tyranny and totalitarianism.
And no, there are persons who do wrong and must be opposed but there are not bad guys, this is a misnomer. When God made man God called His creature and His creation good. Attempting to blame those who came before us, and asked for help in ridding corruption, and were ignored, and calling them the bad guys appears to be a denial of who killed Abel and who is his brothers keeper. Shame can be deserved and lying to avoid admission of fault is not courage.
 
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As the OP I continue be fascinated by the number of posters who base their moral responses on what might be called “American ideology” (I don’t mean the “Americanism” of Pius XIII) rather than Catholic teaching and tradition.
 
RCs should base their moral positions on RC teachings, at the appropriate level of theological certainty.
 
The use of the nuclear weapons ended the war with the fewest casualties of any alternative available, consistent with the goals for which we fought the war.
 
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