Nuclear Weapons

With President-Elect Trump's argument that the nuclear weapon capabilities of the United States need to be modernized,


Carl Sagan made this analogy regarding nuclear weapons.

We have one country with 10,000 matches while our country has 15.000 matches. We are stuck inside a room filled completely with gasoline. The massive amounts of overkill to destroy each other is hilarious.

It would certainly seem better to remove/drain the gasoline and reduce by a huge amount the number of matches we need.

The only insanely illogical need for nuclear weapons is to destroy our ONLY planet.

The only logical use for nuclear energy is to provide a path towards the development of fusion energy for abundant power without the additional harmful effects such as nuclear waste, or to provide increased levels of research into powering extra-planetary travel.