The Pros And Cons Of Nuclear Weapons

The U.S. dropped an A-Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and another on Nagasaki, Japan 3 days later. The Japanese Army and Government already knew they were going to lose the war, but they didn’t want to surrender immediately because they feared having harsh punishments and reparations like those of the Treaty of Versailles. Sure, there could have been other options that might not have as many deaths, but there is no guarantee that there would be success in ending the war. Historians on the opposing side of this debate say that there were too many Japanese civilian deaths and that the Japanese didn’t kill as many American civilians. This may be true but if the US would have used plan B which could have been a large invasion similar to D-Day, more casualties would have been caused. The U.S. made a great decision to drop the Atomic Bombs to end World War Two.

The dropping of the atomic weapons in Hiroshima and Nagaski, ordered by President Harry S. Truman, were completely necessary to ensure a speedy end to the war while saving many lives that would have otherwise been taken, had the battle continued. The atomic bombs, also known as Fat Man and Little Boy, were dropped in Japan in the summer of 1945. To this day, The United States stands as the only nation to have used a nuclear weapon on another nation. A single atomic bomb can reduce a city and its population to dust. Although the bombings were inhumane and had negative effects that were unavoidable, the nature of war is catastrophic and human lives are taken nonetheless. What was to be decided was whether these deaths should be of the Japanese

As noted by them, after the successful creation of an invention, it is common to see it be easily replicated at a far lesser cost. The world becomes more dangerous as countries continue to develop their nuclear arms in secret. The country who first brings its nuclear arms into the light will gain the upper hand, even if only temporary. It is best that the information on nuclear arms is exposed in order for every country to be aware of the weapons their neighboring countries hold. The reports that have arrived have also painted a dire picture with their large number of

Leaders around the world are trying to get rid of their nuclear weapons. In contrast, in a world where Nuclear weapons exist there is no stopping them from being used. When it is used it will have a devastating impact on the world, humans, animals, and plants

Great post this week, it was very interesting. The chances that a terrorist organization could build their own nuclear weapon without nobody noticing it are very low. Terrorist do not have the money nor the infrastructure necessary to do it (American Public University, 2016). The only way in which I could see terrorists carrying out a nuclear attack anywhere in the world is if Iran or North Korea provides terrorist with a nuclear weapon. That is also very unlikely because those nuclear states know that after the nuclear attack, the uranium will be traced back to the country that facilitated the nuclear weapon. This will result in retaliation and probably in a nuclear attack from another state. Therefore, as much as they would like to facilitate

Should it be allowed to have atomic weapons even if they could change the world?

“Just the fact of having nuclear weapons, and letting the rest of the world know, provides a great amount of security” (HR) With war most countries want to be the strongest so that the war can be won. When the people of a country are reassured that their military has nuclear weapons it creates a sense of security that does not go unnoticed. For Example President Barack Obama called for the United States to lead international efforts toward a world free of nuclear weapons. (U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy) “The Task Force report, titled U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, focuses on near-term policies to reduce nuclear weapons to the lowest possible level consistent with maintaining a credible deterrent.” The United States started to try to ease people’s minds by creating guides to surviving a nuclear attack, should it ever occur. There were even cartoons created to reassure children about this fear, such as Duck and Cover

Beginning from deep within the depths of Nazi held territory to appearing on virtually every continent. Ballistic Missiles have had a long history dating back to 1939 and the beginning of the V-Weapons program, and have been around in one way or another for over 70 years, indeed the advent of modern missile technology has changed the face of modern warfare and politics, and coupled with the advent of the two-stage hydrogen bomb, they have now brought humanity the closest to another World-War. Ballistic missile development, proliferation, and usage have had one of the largest and most profound impacts on modern warfare and international politics.

Summary: Tensions with the US and North korea have everyone worried about whether or not we will get hit with actual nuclear weapons. But could we possibly take down the nuclear warheads before they even get close to the US? One possible technology that people have been talking about over the years to take down a nuclear missile is a figurative "sheild" of other types of missiles used to shoot down the nuclear ICBM shot at the US. However many experts mention that this system is too flawed and could lead to a missile getting through the "safe" shield of missiles. The first attempts at making a nuclear defense system happened in the 1950s when ICBMs were first created and realized as a major threat. Because of this, the US rushed to defend us

Equally important to the safety standards forced upon nuclear engineers, is the prospect of nuclear weapons proliferation as a byproduct of energy production. It has been a topic of debate since the mid-1940s when the first nuclear bombs were being produced for war under the United States Manhattan Project, and since then has received varied attention throughout the years. In its simplest form, there is concern that the same technologies that are being used to produce nuclear power, may also be able to allow access to nuclear weapons in the process. The Nuclear Threat Initiative covers these issues, pointing explicitly to fuel enrichment and reprocessing as the most dangerous. It is believed that high-grade uranium (which is only used in laboratory

“There are armed adversaries of the US with nuclear weapons, including Russia, China and North Korea, with Iran now projected to have sufficient nuclear material for a weapon as early as 2014” ( Huessy, 2013, para. 9). This really emphasizes that the while the threat of terrorist groups using a nuclear weapon may not be probable, other countries are clearly very interested in them. “…North Korea announced in 2003 that it was building a bomb…” (New Internationalist, 2008, para. 19). So the threat of the countries using a nuclear bomb appears to be much more likely than that of a terrorist groups, even though a terrorist group has tried to acquire them, as the “…apocalyptic nature…” of a nuclear device appeals to extremists (IHS.Com, 2005, para. 14). Between 1993 and 2008, there have been 421 incidents of either theft of loss of radioactive or nuclear materials, and 2 terrorist groups

What are nuclear weapons. Nuclear Weapons are bombs or missiles that use nuclear energy to cause an explosion of devastating range. Nuclear weapons work like conventional bombs, which means they are designed to cause damage through an explosion that releases a large amount of energy in a short period of time. Unlike conventional bombs though where the explosion is generated by a chemical reaction, which involves the rearrangement of atoms to form new molecules. In nuclear weapons, the explosion is instead generated by changing the atoms themselves, either by splitting them or fusing them together to create new atoms. The amount of energy released is also different in a nuclear reaction than a conventional bomb, for a conventional bomb since the amount of energy available within an atom is given by Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2, where E = energy, m = the mass and c = the speed of light. Since the energy available equals the mass multiplied by 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 or the square of the speed of light represented in meters per second. As a product, a nuclear bomb which uses approximately one kilogram of plutonium could have the same explosive force as approximately 15 million kilograms of the conventional explosive TNT. There are two kinds of nuclear weapons, those made by fission energy and those made by fusion energy.

Nuclear Warfare is possible at any given time during this time period. With all the technology we have these days, different countries could build bombs and start a third world war. Different nations don’t know what other nations can do with the technology. Everybody seems to fear nuclear warfare because it can release high levels of radiation, that removes electrons from atoms and can change people's DNA. Even though America is on the verge of nuclear warfare with Korea, neither of the country's know whether the other country is actually bluffing or actually making a threat to send off a nuclear bomb enough to, destroy the whole country. But Nuclear warfare is described as a military conflict or political strategy in which it is used to inflict damage to the intended country.

Nuclear missiles, nuclear bombs, nuclear wars, everything seems to have fallen into the same category, but nobody has really payed attention to the “big picture” and has actually took the time to realize what this is really about. Many people may ask what exactly is it that really seems to start up all of this, but will any other individual really be able to answer this type of question? Society needs to put in the time to really think about it and ask themselves “What is Nuclear Proliferation? How did it start? Who bothered to start and/or try to stop it?” Although it may be hard to understand, reading deep into this type of category may lead to things that no one ever expected to find out. What others may not know is that it has made a big impact into many nations that are now having to deal with these types of conflicts; but of course, unless an individual actually decides to look into it, they will never have a clue to what it is.

However, many countries started to seek for these kind of weapons. After about three decades of the first use of nuclear attack, a nuclear power plant major accident occurred in Chernobyl, causes a huge amounts of radioactive particles to spread around the plant. Due to that, the surrounded city was evacuated and a lot of people was contaminated and some of them died [2].