To prevent tough guys to play with the war. If we use the nuclear weapon, nobody will survive. Nobody should play with the war.
spartas military was large and they had alot of weapons
Using large, nuclear weapons, eg. Bombs
Eisenhower's military policy was shaped by nuclear technology. Due to the concept of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction, though I am not sure if that term was in use during his administration), nuclear weapons became the focus of national defense. So the US shifted from a large standing army to a smaller one with emphasis on intelligence gathering, espionage, and large stockpile of nuclear weapons.
far away from large populations
Nuclear weapons do not deter terrorists and indeed the use of nuclear weapons appeals to terrorists. During the Cold War large superpowers acheived a stalemate since neither side wanted to start a nuclear conflict which could result in Mutual Assured destruction however terrorists have no such concerns.
No, Cuba never had control of a large amount of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union placed them their in reaction to the US placing Nuclear weapons on West Germany, Greece, Turkey, and some pacific island. The US threatened a huge invasion or nuclear strike against Cuba after they discovered the Nuclear weapons in Cuba
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came within a hair's breadth of agreeing to phase out their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. General Zhu Chenghu of China's National Defense University, made some remarks that stirred an unusual uproar in the West and in the United States in particular. According to reports in the Western media, Gen. Zhu, in responding to questions in a briefing session on China's foreign and security policy with a delegation of foreign journalists based in Hong Kong, seemed to indicate that in a possible military conflict with the United States over Taiwan, Beijing would be no match for the United States in terms of conventional capability. Zhu thus suggested that China should perhaps be the first to use nuclear weapons to deter a possible U.S. intervention. Today, the United States is the only nuclear power that continues to deploy nuclear weapons outside its own territory. The approximately 480 nuclear bombs in Europe are intended for use in accordance with NATO nuclear strike plans, the report asserts, against targets in Russia or countries in the Middle East such as Iran and Syria. Israel has not confirmed that it has nuclear weapons and officially maintains that it will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. Yet the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is a "public secret" by now due to the declassification of large numbers of formerly highly classified US government documents which show that the United States by 1975 was convinced that Israel had nuclear weapons But as the questions says, there should no be nuclear weapons.
Japan has a large nuclear civil electricity industry, but no nuclear weapons
Nearly what it cost to build them.
A large-scale nuclear exchange followed by a conventional war which itself would involve heavy use of tactical nuclear weapons.
Massive retaliation -apex
Massive retaliation -apex