Nuclear age a boon or a bane?

Question

is it a boon or a bane

Answer 1

Boon for many reasons

Cheap power without greenhouse gases and strip mining

A huge amount of medical uses like radiation therapy, neutron guns, etc.

Industrial uses like testing soil and strength of materials and buildings

Food safety with irradiated foods, much safer and less toxic than chemicals

Space exploration....most satellites are nuke powered in some way and deep space ones (Cassini) are very nuke powered, must be do have power way away from the sun.  

Think of the billions of barrels of oil saved by nuke subs, nuke carriers, nuke boats....much less all the electricty

Answer 2

bane

Answer 3

KABOOM....

Answer 4

Boon... and bane... booane... banoon...

The major benefit of nuclear energy is nuclear-electric power. Although this power is relatively green it is dependent on a fuel supply more limited than fossil fuels, is very expensive, is much more dangerous to the local area, and produces deadly waste that must be stored for millions of years. This in comparison to the negative aspects of the nuclear age leaves the scale a little lopsided.

The nuclear age has given mankind a weapon so terrible it is referred to as simply "the bomb". The thermonuclear bomb has for the first time given mankind the ability to wipe over half of the population of Earth in moments... a very scary thing to think about. The Cold War is over, but it brought us a hairs width to nuclear apocalypse. Now new nuclear powers are appearing across the world stage as smaller countries asset themselves. New conflicts such as India vs. Pakistan and Iran vs. Israel bring the renewed threat of large scale nuclear exchanges. However the shear power behind the bomb may have actually saved more lives this last century than taken. If not for the dropping of Fat Man and Little Boy on Japan America would have lead a destructive ground campaign on the Japan's mainland no doubt leading to the near utter destruction of the Japaneses people. That and the constant threat of nuclear war is probably the only thing that kept the United States and the former Soviet Union out of direct warfare saving millions more lives. So, in a way the bomb has provided more benefits to this world than nuclear-electric power.

The whole issue of the nuclear age being a boon or bane is a complex one, but the step into it was an inevitable one if mankind is to pursue knowledge of the world around us. To ignore the power of the nuclear scale might have lifted a lot of weight off the hearts of many people in the later parts of the 20th century and give piece of mind for all those in the present but it would also nullify all scientific and technological advancement since the nuclear age's inception and all future progress... and that in my opinion would be more bane than boon.

Nuclear age = boon

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Answer 5

boon, France is selling energy all over Europe....we( the U.S.) are way behind.

Answer 6

a boon - when its deployed for mankind.

Answer 7

a bane