Does owning a nuclear bomb make you safer?

Mine certainly makes me feel safer! :)

A poor choice of weapons for personal protection. How can I use it without killing myself too? It would have to be used as a deterent, which only works if the attacker believes you will use it.

First, I am assuming you are referring to the government having nuclear weapons. In this case the answer is yes. The threat of retaliation will prevent one country from using a nuke on the other.

What?! Why did you even ask that question. Who will walk around carrying a nuke?

no ..
ofcourse not ..
it will just give a more problem to the society a peaceful environment with nothing harmful is what can make us safer ..

The concept of mutally assured destruction worked between us and the Russians for years. Nukes are also keeping the Arabs out of Israel.

Only if everyone else doesn't.

Even then you have to worry about stray radiation.

Ask North Korea, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and the numerous other countries that have nuclear weapons, that we do not bother!!! Iran, Iraq, and other countries seek this same capabilities so we will not bother them either, not to sell them to terrorists, like we are trained too believe!!! Take a look at what countries we have active military bases; those countries do not have nuclear weapons, and also have our countries drug of need-OIL!!! We desperately want troops in Iran and Iraq, because of the vastness of their oil reserves!! Nigeria is next, but China is beating us too the punch, because they have no problem paying fair market value, provide jobs, good jobs for the Nigeria people, whereas we would bring an entire neighborhood of Americans into the country, give college educated Nigerians menial labor jobs, that is our way!!!!

Yes and no. Owing nuclear weapons only encourages others to own nuclear weapons. At the same time, its good to have them incase some country with a radical leader decides to use them against you. Owning them will make him think twice about using his. The world would be better off having no nuclear weapons but that will never happen. The only good purpose I can see for humans to have nuclear weapons is in the case of having to blow a comet or meteor off its course from smashing into the Earth, or in the unlikely event of having to fend off a malicious alien invasion.

But using it to wipe out the enemy will. :(

No it doesn't make you safer. It only makes you feel safer. When the rockets go off and the bombs drop, no one will be safe.

Only if a government (I assume you mean government) is an established power will nukes deter attackers. Smaller countries that try to deveop nukes tend to be met with hostility, especially if they are not aligned with a powerful country.

just the enemy knowing this will always make them think twice...would they if we didn't? so ,YES, it most certainly does......hopefully , it will never have to be utilized......

Weapons are made to be used (and have been used before) and they have no threat effect if they aren´t. So on that standpoint, how can it be safe? Especially for the ones on the receiving end?

I agree with HungryGuy, with one exception. I think there are plenty of countries that would strike with a nuke simply because they feel superior to the other country. Even if that country had nukes of its own.

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Considering that your 3 year old child might play with it I don't think so!

I mean, what if it goes off in your house?

On a related note, Do we need to declare war on bears?

North Korea's so insane it's actually comical, and they're not the only ones. Until we're the only ones with nuclear devices, we have no business disarming ours. Those who believe we will be safe in doing so are naive.

I own two of them... Nobody has ever messed with me.

I am just now completing the assembly of a DIY (Do It Yourself) compact fission device in my basement. I plan to test it on the Bikini Atoll, where the U.S. tested its nuclear devices 70 years ago. I just need to persuade those pesky natives to move away from the place where their ancestors have lived for countless generations, until the radioactive cesium-137 degrades through a couple half-lives. Let's see, one half-life is 30 years.... Hmm, I guess we'll just have to round those natives up and stick 'em on a reservation. I'm sure they'll understand that it's for the good of the nation. Not their nation, but you know, the USA, which is the world's most important nation.

A nuclear weapon is only effective if you never have to use it, but your enemies believe that you can and will.

oh yes it does, all warm and cozy and ......tingly.........hot!! .....Im melting Im melting oh what a wonderful world aaaaaah

A nuclear bomb wont make me safer. Thats something im sure of.

But having a strong economy will!

the only way a nuke helps make you safe is through MAD (mutualy assured destruction) and the only way that works is when everyone with nukes cares more about their own well being than they do about hurting you. this is why the NPT was created because the less total nations that have the nuke the less likely a psychotic fringe leader will be in posession of the nuke. personaly having the nuke does not make your individual nation safer... but strong nongenocidal nations having them and having the commitment to glass anyone who uses them in violation of the NPT makes the whole world safer because someone launching nukes against a rival ensures their own deaths.
you can not uninvent the nuke and even if the USA had not invented it... it would have been discovered by now anyway and possibly sent the world down a bloodier historical path... imagine if hitler had beaten us to nuclear deployment... his government had the will to obliterate his enemies, they started the war and had no desire to end it short of global domination. the nuke ended WWII

I think it would do the exact opposite

Those things emanate low levels of radiation. Not low enough to kill you right away, but enough to kill you faster than nature would.

If everybody is sane, then if everybody has a nuke then the fear of retaliation will prevent someone from attacking. The problem is when we have religious fantatics in the world who don't care if they die "for the cause." If and when they get nukes, then Mutually Assured Destruction won't be a deterrent any more.

Using a nuclear bomb will make you safer.

Not sure, but maybe you should be asking dose owning one making you funnier?

No.
But it does make you a little more careful, both in how you handle it and where you drop it!

I dunno about safer but it'll make you glow in the darkfor sure

Have you not heard of the Nuclear Deterent.....it's worked so far.

Only if you're a major (and preferably western) power. A small country with a nuke will quickly be branded as a 'rogue state' and land on the receiving end of all the paranoia the US can drum up.