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    World Peace and Nuclear Weapons By Naseer Ahmad Virk This article deals with one of the most debatable discussions of all time. Read on to know more about nuclear weapons pros and cons. Nuclear weapons have been in this world since World War 2 and have been used, till date only twice and that too in the same war we are speaking about. The only country to use nuclear weapons was the United States of America. The US dropped two atomic nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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    allies that may have nuclear weapons protect them, so they won’t need nuclear weapons to keep the peace. From an environmental standpoint, environmentalists feel that nuclear energy would be a good thing for the world. Mark Lynas, a British environmental activist said, “Anyone who still marches against nuclear today is in my view just as bad for the climate as textbook eco-villains like that big oil companies” (Van Munster 789). Ever since the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the power

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    Nuclear War: Power Versus Peace In today’s society people must consider the possible devastation a major war could bring to the world and society as a whole. Throughout history the US has successfully avenged threats made to our nation, homes, and citizens but, what if the menace becomes mass destruction? According to Johan Galtung, the author of On the Social and Cultural Implications of Nuclear War, a war with such ambivalent outcomes would produce a more broken world, stating, “We live already

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    Does the existence of nuclear weapons facilitate greater stability in international politics? Why/why not? The existence of nuclear weapons for better or worse have indubitably impacted our lives in one way or the other. There are the some who find these weapons to be singularly beneficial. For example Defence Analyst Edward Luttwak said “we have lived since 1945 without another world war precisely because rational minds…extracted a durable peace from the very terror of nuclear weapons.” (Luttwak

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    Kantian Views On War

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    applications of two contemporary military technologies: nuclear weapons and drones (otherwise known as Unmanned Armed Vehicles). There are many cases of emerging military technologies that raise valuable question in regards to just acts of war, but I chose these two in particular because of they provide two seemingly opposing perspectives

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    anarchy and achieve perpetual peace, there needed to be collective action (interdependency between states), and a federation of states in which state sovereignty will be left intact (international organizations). However, for this to occur, states must have a democratic government. This later became known as the Kantian Triangle. Kant assumed that states would act in self-interested ways and that repeated interactions would eventually lead to an expanding zone of peace – for example NATO. Like Kant’s

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    Another example of Canada’s peace-keeping presence is the War in Kosovo. In March of 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army was fighting with the Serbian Forces. NATO (which Canada is part of) launched a number of missiles to force Siberian leader Slobodan Milošević to fall back. Canada took a peace-keeping approach to help cool down the tension between the Serbian and Kosovo Forces. One of the main reasons Canada

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    war, or to help bring back peace when armed conflict does occur, and to create lasting peace in societies that are emerging from wars. When a dispute leads to fighting, the Council 's first priority is to end it as soon as possible. Often, the Council has commanded ceasefire which has contributed to preventing wider wars. It also deploys United Nations peacekeeping operations to help ease tension in troubled areas, keep conflicting forces apart and create conditions so peace can continue after agreements

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    Pacifism Essay

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    view of war. A relative pacifist is someone who may use violence in certain situations but who supports disarmament. They are discriminating about WW1 but agree that WW2 had to be fought. Nuclear pacifists believe that conventional weapons are acceptable as a last resort if war is inevitable, as it is, but nuclear

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    world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” In other words, our world understands warfare more than harmony. Having ethical responsibility can contribute a major part in increasing peace around us. In the short story, “And of Clay Are We Created” the author, Isabelle Allende described the way Rolf Carle’s act of ethical responsibility effected a little girl's death in a way that she could die in peace instead

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