Mos Def vs. Christopher Hitchens on nuclear weapons

Mos Def, Christopher Hitchens, and Salman Rushdie talking about nuclear weapons and war

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• weapons

[elfbride]

Mos Def was most definitely in over his head.

[pragmatismnotidealis]

Chernobyl wasn't nuclear weapons it was energy. He should most definetely stick to music.

[7Rorschach7]

Ghandi said the Eye for and Eye thing.. 

[Lulzalutioners]

@Jones025 An invasion into mainland Japan would have been a terrible folly with far more casualties. Google the firebombing of Tokyo for example was already under way killing thousands. Imagine if the US had invaded mainland Japan and destroyed the entire countries industry, their people and their own soldiers. The second bomb arguably should not have been dropped, though.

Modern war is no longer between industrialized nations, this is because of nuclear weapons.

[LukeGriffths121]

@DancinJim Yeah, fair enough. 

[carryall69]

@Jones025 countries are not all the same. we are talking about an islamic fashistoid theocracy who is going nuclear and you busy yourself with self-flagellation? i mean how decadent is that? you think you are safe anyway? or are you religious or what? well i'm afraid. i fear those muslim fanatics. i think they are crazy. big time crazy! you don't let them flurish and do appeacement until they run you over? we are not that untouchable.. wake up yourself!

[DancinJim]

@LukeGriffths121 Let's just convene on the fact that we both know Hitchens is the man.

[TomSarsfield]

@Jones025 Because 10 million Germans died from the Allied Invasion and only 200k civilians died from the bomb.

Thats why.

[christo930]

@Maniac50AE I agree with you about the gun control being idiotic and not the cause of human violence. My main point is that full nuclear disarmament will almost certainly allow another large scale war to start, then once it starts, there is nothing to stop governments from building and using nuclear weapons. At least by having the nukes, we avoid large scale ww2 level wars amongst industrialized nations.

[Jones025]

Japan wasn't/isn't communist. Also what was the problem with the US defeating Japan the dame way they defeated Germany???? They didn't have to defeat them with nukes. I say that to say this........... all nations no matter what religious or political motives they have should disarm their nukes. This nuclear thing isn't just a political, relgious or power thing........ it's a human thing due to the fact that it could kill us all. Wake up people!

[presidiun]

@Brosnbroccoli Most. It is a shame it did not happen

[Brosnbroccoli]

@Jones025

Dude...

Imagine what could of happened if the U.S didn't use those nukes. Russia-China-Japan-Korea -> If that happened, how many countries do you think would be communist countries today?