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Will There Be A Ww2 Essay

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Will there be a WWIII? Most likely not. Countries from around the world are trying to prevent this from happening, because if we have a WWIII, we would be our own demise. First off, There are so many nuclear warheads in the world, that we could blow up the whole earth. As it says in this article, from a scientist/mathematician "There are an estimated total of 20,500 nuclear warheads in the world today. If the average power of these devices is 33,500 Kilotons, there are enough to destroy the total earth landmass.” For comparison, the largest bomb ever detonated was 50 megatons - or 50000000000000 pounds of TNT. If we can produce 1 pound of TNT per minute, it would take 1,902,540 YEARS to produce the same amount of force one bomb can …show more content…

Maybe the terrorists want it though. They seem to like mass destruction. Heres another fact: It would only take a couple bombs to destroy the US. This is not even counting wind carrying radioactive dirt and dust miles away. If a bomb was dropped in the UK, people on the east coast of the US could suffer radiation poisoning. Secondly, thermonuclear bombs, or hydrogen bombs, work by using the energy of a fission bomb to compress and heat fusion fuel. This means that it has incredible nuclear fallout, and if only a few were dropped, we would go into nuclear winter, no crops would grow, and everything would die. Even if they were dropped in the same place at the same time on the other side of the world, the nuclear winter would engulf the world in a shade, essentially turning it into a giant snowball and causing another ice age. Going back to the question on the table, will there be a WWIII? Maybe, if North Korea makes a big mistake. The USA cannot nuke North Korea because some of the fallout would land onto China, South Korea, and Russia. We do not want to go to war with Russia, neither China. If we go to war with Russia, then the world ends, if we go to war with China, its allies would join in and our allies would join in and the world would end. The geography of North Korea is perfect for them because we would have to resort to foot combat and carpet bombing, which is not preferable. If we

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