Fear

[jim_doki]

I personally think Nuclear War won't actually go ahead. It's too big a stick. I don't think anyone's got the balls to throw the switch

 

[mr mcshiznit]

Well seeing as how i have no wish to die or in the other case, live in a nuclear fallout world yeah it scares the crap out of me. Jim ,sir its not the balls that they lack that concerns me, its the lack of brains that would lead to that button being pushed.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

Not really, in the current climate if a country was unstable enough to use nuclear weapons against an enemy, I believe it would draw the aggression of the entire United Nations.

Yes, enough that the UN will be very angry and send the culprit a letter saying just how angry they are.

Maybe, but there are still countries who would not wish to see the world destabilized by a rogue leader or country, I believe the aggressor would face a joint effort to keep the relative peace first world countries have enjoyed since the World Wars.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Not really, in the current climate if a country was unstable enough to use nuclear weapons against an enemy, I believe it would draw the aggression of the entire United Nations.

Yeah, they'd pass a *vicious* resolution. There might even be sanctions! Unless it was someone bombing the U.S., of course, because *we* deserve it.

Frankly, the idea of dying in a nuclear blast frightens me a lot less than, say, having my throat slit and choking to death over the course of several minutes while breathing my own blood. When you're dead, what difference does it make to you how much destruction there was and how many other people met their fate in the same manner? The thing to fear about a nuclear holocaust is *surviving* it.

P.S. Fortunately, this is not something I really have to worry about. I live close enough to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that my hometown will certainly be among the high-priority targets in a full-blown nuclear exchange.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I provide the following sayings...

"Do not concern oneself with the end; embrace a new beginning."
"What is inevitable cannot be conquered, thus it shall not impede progress."
"Fear not what is beyond control; control thy fear."

This essentially states what is more important however to offer a less cryptic, there is naught to fear given we could do little in the ways of preventing such a catastrophe were it to take place.

 

[Saskwach]

I personally think Nuclear War won't actually go ahead. It's too big a stick. I don't think anyone's got the balls to throw the switch

Is that a challenge?

 

[Geamo]

I don't feel easy with one person having the power over so many others. In all reality, if someone fires a nuke at a country, they can't do shite about it. Better get under the bed and pray.

Leads to a question.

If you heard there was a nuke heading towards your country and there was nothing you could do to stop it, what would you do?

 

[Tread184]

Yes, there is a such thing as tactical Nuclear warfare. If you ever played World in Conflict, there is a part where you nuke an entire Russian Tank division in the mountains because they were about to over run your forces. Like strategic nuclear warfare, tactical N.W. hasn't happened yet.

Anyway, honestly, I wouldn't mind surviving a war and living in a Fallout/Mad Max/Stalker kind of world. Fighting for survival, rebuilding society, focusing on things that actually matter, not what some stupid celebrity did the other night. It wouldn't be boring.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

To answer Labyrinth, y

 

[Johnn Johnston]

If you heard there was a nuke heading towards your country and there was nothing you could do to stop it, what would you do?

To be honest, I'd just stop. I wouldn't try to hide, I wouldn't try to escape (after all, I doubt it would be headed for the rural East Midlands), I'd just stop. That would be because the whole idea that a nuclear weapon has actually been used on someone, and that in just a few minutes millions will die due to the pressing of a single button, would hit home like a baseball bat nailed to a sledgehammer.

I personally think Nuclear War won't actually go ahead. It's too big a stick. I don't think anyone's got the balls to throw the switch

Is that a challenge?

I call your threat of nuclear war and raise you a nuclear winter!

 

[Unholykrumpet]

It's outside of my control...being afraid does nothing but make you go crazy.

I'd much rather be terrified of things inside my sphere of control, like bees, snakes, flying things, evil snowmen, crazy ex girlfriends...stuff like that.