Nukes ; Yes or No

An interesting little factoid about the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The reason America dropped the bombs was effectively because they started a fight they weren't capable of finishing. They used Japan's assault on Pearl Harbour as a pretext, but prior to that the US had trade embargoes placed upon Japan/Japanese companies situated in the United States. As a result, Pearl Harbour was a sort of last-ditch attempt by the Japanese government to stop the ruination of its foreign trade. They attacked with such ferocity that the American forces were basically given no other option than to use the atomic bombs. Otherwise, their forces would most likely have been overwhelmed due to the Japanese forces' willingness to die, rather than give up.

With regards to nuclear arms in general, I'm against them. Parts of Hiroshima are still dangerous today due to residue, and you just need to look at events like the Chernobyl explosion to see how awfully destructive anything nuclear can be. The issue is that now, most countries have them. So it's a sort of awkward stand-off where everybody has their finger on the button, but nobody particularly wants to be the first one to launch.