What is going on with North Korea??

[mkennedy]

According to the South Park website after they captured Saddam they made him watch the South Park movie. Not as harsh as water boarding.

[InCreator]

While a nuke-free world would be nice...

Would it?
I think horror of nuclear war is only thing that has kept us from WW3. Since 1945, there has been loads of reasons to start a new global war.

[Evil]

While a nuke-free world would be nice...

Would it?
I think horror of nuclear war is only thing that has kept us from WW3. Since 1945, there has been loads of reasons to start a new global war.

Many of those reasons have to do with nuclear arms. A nuke-free World would be nice, but we'll just come up with some other way to manipulate countries into doing what we want. Be it different types of "super weapons" or full scale invasions of bothersome countries.

I just wish there was some other way to manipulate countries, rather than threatening total destruction. Like photos of Kim Jong Il wearing a dress or something. 

[Akatosh]

While a nuke-free world would be nice...

Would it?
I think horror of nuclear war is only thing that has kept us from WW3. Since 1945, there has been loads of reasons to start a new global war.

As I said, it's not really feasible, for a variety of reasons. I also think a completly violence-free world would be nice, as would a UNO with actually some pull, or a world without dictatorships or failing states. None of that is going to happen (at least not completly), but, well, one can dream...

[Stee]

Plus, there are a few states that only really still have pull in international politics because they have nukes.

By states I'm assuming you mean countries. In that case let me correct you.

Plus, all countries only really still have pull in international politics if they have nukes.

[Akatosh]

Yeah, probably; I meant it like "France", not "Texas". Sorry if that was unclear.

However, I don't think you're right with your "correction". Neither Japan nor Germany, for example, have nuclear weapons of their own (and Japan isn't even part of a "sharing program"), and I've always been under the impression that the 2nd and 4ths largest economies in the world would wield some power in international affairs.