Well but if a criminal has already been put to jail and he is sentenced for few years in jail after offences like rape or alleged manslaughter, don't the people have the right to know who the criminals are and be aware? And also, can "further unnecessary and unwanted publicity" be worse than what the criminal may have done?
Nuclear weapons should't be abolished as it keeps the government in check. For one, no government would lightly try to nuke another nation when they know that the other countries can to the same thing to them. In addition, weapons with less fatality rates mean more wars. A typical example would be the first and the second world war. Even after horrors of the first world war, Germany started another war after less than two decades.
