Is nuclear war inevitable?

The weapons are still there & people are more evil now than ever, sadly I would say yes, there will be a nuclear exchange, probably sooner than we think & now no one will be ready.

No, nuclear war is not inevitable.
I don't even think it is likely between Russia and the US.
Middle East as a possible theatre is another story

Apparently there are enough nuclear weapons (some stolen, missing and unaccounted for) that if all of them went off at once, it's be enough to at least blow up the planet three times (not that there'd even be much left after the first round of those went off). Because there are psychopaths and nuts on power trips a lot these days (at least, there seem to be more than there used to be or maybe that's just media talking) I think sooner or later some idiot will push the button that sends everything into chaos. Humans are stupid, and have been stupid for as long as they've been around, and sometimes even though there are still plenty of intelligent people out there, there just aren't enough of them to have much of a say in what happens to our world. We're more concerned about global warming rising temperatures by 2 degrees or what the latest trashy pop music song is on the radio than we are about the possibility of nuclear destruction, for pete's sake. We've seen Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, Chernobyl, the effects of radiation, birth defects, deformities, cancer, internal injuries, blindness, mental deficiencies and ultimately radiation poisoning and death - and yet you hardly hear about it at all in the 21st century. The world will go, and not with a bang, but with a whimper. :(

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"The 21st century is all flash but no substance." ~ Smog City

People may remember the metaphor of the "nuclear clock" that was used during the Cold War -- it was a way of indicating how imminent the outbreak of nuclear attack might be, before anyone thought of using traffic light colours. A typical alarm might say the nuclear clock was showing "11 minutes to midnight", say.

I thought the image had been retired, but apparently it's still maintained by some monitoring agencies, notably the UN, and according to a radio report I heard a month or so back, it's recently been advanced to two minutes to midnight. According to the UN, we are closer to a nuclear war now than we have ever been.

Scary.

Part of the issue, it said, is the increasing volatility of international politics; part is the fact that nuclear weapons are moving into hands of countries (such as Iran and North Korea) that are, shall we say, less constrained in the lengths they will go to in handling conflict; and part is that the simple increase in the number of hands potentially on nuclear triggers make it significantly more likely that something will go wrong.

So: Inevitable? Probably not. Likely? Apparently, yes.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

We only postponed it. Judgement Day is inevitable.

I'm pretty confident there won't be a nuclear war. People are crazy, but not that crazy.

Is nuclear war inevitable?