Did nuclear weapons ruin the way we fight wars?

Question

It's like kindergarden kids shooting each other because one stole their cookie.

Answer 1

It contributed to a lot of deterrence. A lot of our own people and other people would be dead, if for instance Russia and the US didn't have nukes. Of if Israel didn't have nukes, there would be a war right now in Iran and we would be in the middle of it.

Answer 2

Yeah, before it was like a big fist fight, with maybe a knife or two in there, and america went crazy and pulled out a gun, so every body else ran and got some guns, by guns i mean nukes  

Answer 3

No. The use of nuclear weapons is largely off limits seeing their destructive force and the perception of using them against an enemy without them.  

Answer 4

h**l yea

they're major wussies now. whatever happened to hand to hand combat!?

Answer 5

rather we were still fighting with rocks  

Answer 6

Because we cannot use nuclear weapons do to treaties and retaliation, we have restored to a very high tech military.

Like precision guide missiles and bombs that are so precise we can fly them through you front door. Improved gear and training for special units. Also, we have some of the mose advanced aircraft.  We also have pretty powerful conventional (meaning uses chemical explosives instead of nuclear fission) bombs.

In that aspect, nuclear weapons made us rethink our tactics.  With a few ships we could just pound someone with on cruise missile after another.

Answer 7

Nuclear weapons are a great deterrent to wars....believe it or not...problem is these radical groups that have no official country of affiliation...but they do pose a risk if a radical group ever got their hands on one with a good delivery system....ouch

Answer 8

yes. It was better when Millions died, it helped in population control

Answer 9

I don't get it. You seem to entertain a strange delusion that wars were a good thing at one time. The only time nukes were ever used was to end a very bloody conventional war. The way you are talking you would think somebody gets nuked every few years. If you are America, you should be happy we have nukes. We are about 350 million people in a world of 6 billion and we are very rich. We would have been over run long agao if it wasn't for our nuclear capabilities.

Answer 10

How does one ruin the way one fights a war?  There is only one good way to fight a war and that is to win.  But that is neither here nor there.  Nuclear weapons have only been used in warfare once and that was to end a war and save American and allied lives.  It seems to me that in all wars in the years that followed that one have proceeded along in a more or less normal fashion.  Oh by the way the cookie of choice for the US Army is the Oreo Cream Sandwich.  If someone stole mine I might very well be predisposed to fight.  Good luck to you.

Answer 11

Yeah.  Nukes took all of the fun out of it.

Answer 12

we can only pick on the little guys without nukes. no major wars between superpowers.