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    Nuclear weapons were thought to be able to the end war for mankind. But at the same time, people who believe this don’t realize the damage it causes to the many different lives that inhabit this world. A nuclear weapon is a military weapon that was created to go to war and kill. It also has been used as a protection to the nation or country from unknown people that isn’t suppose to be there in the first place(“How Do Nuclear Weapons Work?” 1). Nuclear weapons could never be justified due to the

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    Nuclear weaponry: A necessity or nonsense? Scientific breakthroughs in the 1930s led the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to collaborate during World War 2 in an undercover venture named the “Manhattan project” aiming to create weaponry utilising nuclear fission. By 1945 a nuclear bomb called “Little boy” was created, and dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945. This is important as it was the first and only time an atomic bomb has been used on a populated area, and it was a method of analysing

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    events remain the only two times in history where nuclear weapons were used in warfare. Less than twenty years later the U.S.S.R tested a nuclear bomb that recorded an explosion 3,333 times as powerful as the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Bennett). The immense amount of destruction that could be caused by these weapons is why the great powers of the world should come together and decided to destroy their nuclear arsenals. Nuclear weapons could easily render the entire race extinct and it

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    countries trying to develop nuclear weapons. The countries that were trying to develop them, wanted them because they wanted to the first nuclear superpower in the world. If any of these other countries ‘d developed them before the U.S. did, the way we live in today’s world would’ve been completely different than what we know it as. The U.S. started the research on nuclear weapons and they found out that Germany was researching them. The research on nuclear weapons started in 1940 by the U.S.

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    Chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons have changed the way that people look at wars forever. Since their implementation into the battlefield, it has been realized that these taboo weapons are ones to be feared. Responsible for an extravagant amount of deaths over the past eighty years, chemical, biological, and nuclear threats are not to take lightly. A nuclear weapon is an “explosive device designed to derive its destructive explosion via nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of

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    The development of nuclear weapons helped to end World War II, but in turn created their own war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The development of modified military missiles such as the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM, by Americans and the Soviets, had an impact on the struggle of power of the Cold War. The importance of military involvement in the creation of modified missiles and engines were critical events of the Cold War. Additionally, the steps taken to get to space

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    Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Description: Nuclear weapons, weapons that could potentially destroy civilization, are a new topic in International relations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the United States made a nuclear bomb at the end of WWI, soon other countries followed. By now, there are more than fifty nations intervened with the bomb. A few years ago, Iran and the United States decided to form a deal regarding Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons (Habtoor, 2015). The deal,

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    is undeniable that the nature of nuclear weapons has changed military and political relationships among states significantly. Thus, nowadays nuclear weapons are considered to be a traditional means of politics and security. It has been about seven decades since the only case when nuclear weapons were used on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With each passing year the use of nuclear weapons has been very unlikely, and the idea of world without nuclear weapons is becoming stronger. However, threats

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    threat we face in this world [is nuclear weapons] and [that] becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on any nuclear material.” (Find Reference) Hillary Clinton stressed that terrorist gaining nuclear materials was the clear threat and whilst there were mentions of Iran and the general proliferation of nuclear weapons, her main concern was nuclear weapons being utilised by terrorists. The discussion around terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons consists of a dichotomy. There

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    remain about the nuclear developments in Iran, please borrow two international relations theories and show how each theory leads to a different appreciation of what is at stake. Nuclear Weapons and the threat they possess have become a significant part of international relations since the The United States of America used them end to prematurely end it’s war with Japan in 1945. Despite this, in recent times numerous countries have successfully sought to ascertain and develop nuclear offensive capabilities

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