The Pros And Cons Of Nuclear Weapons Saving The World

Nuclear weapons have been around for over 70 years now, still many people around the world are oblivious of the effects that they still have on our world today. The first nuclear weapon, known as the Atomic Bomb, was first detonated in 1945 in Alamogordo, NM. Since then, Nuclear weapons have only had a negative impact on the world, specifically they have affected the environment, economies worldwide, world security, and all life on Earth. The extreme amount of power that these devices possess is unnecessary and illogical which is why they should be outlawed. Although the world's stockpile has decreased, the amount of countries now in possession of these weapons has increased. The 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama has built a
legacy around his nuclear weapons policy. He proposed the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons and has pushed that policy continually throughout his presidency.
He has collected a great amount of accomplishments in doing so such as, the New Start treaty. Obama has been quoted as saying “The threat of nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up." This can be supported by the large number of times where a nuclear attack was close to happening.

It is urgent that action is taken against Governments holding and creating these weapons. As citizens of the world. Our lives are at risk when these devices are apart of our reality. In the article “Ban Nuclear Weapons; Saving Money and Saving the World” by Alan Robock he states that if 2 counties were to have a nuclear war, “it would only take about 50 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs” to create climate change never before seen in recorded human history. There are some 2,000 nuclear warheads on high alert, ready to be launched anywhere in the world within 4-8 minutes. There is a phenomenon known as "Nuclear Winter" which is of real concern. Experts say the smoke from the detonations would block the sunlight from reaching the earth's surface for years. Eventually many most places, if not all, would become uninhabitable. These weapons
are nothing less than doomsday devices, and should be viewed as such. What is even more scary is that these weapon have become thousands of times stronger than the ones used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The strongest one ever tested was the Tsar Bomba (Hydrogen Bomb) created by Russia, which was the largest man-made explosion in the history of mankind. The population has been exposed to radiation as a result of testing these weapons between 1945-1980. The has currently been at least 2,053 test explosions in the atmosphere. Nuclear accidents have spread radiation from North America to Europe and the production of these weapons have leaked out cancerous elements for over 70 years and counting. In an article called "Whats the damage?" By Greenpeace, it states that "due to atmospheric testing alone, 430, 000 fatal human cancers have been produced" and that "Eventually that number will be 2.4 million." There is no solution to cleaning up radiation, it can only be isolated from the environment. Plutonium (one of the hazardous substances released) takes over 250,000 years to become lead. The only way to dispose of the radiation is to bury the materials, which is a primary case for why all nuclear projects must be stopped.