Nuclear Weapons: Defense or Offense

A nuclear weapon can be defined as an unconventional weapon which has the

potential to kill thousands, possibly millions with its powerful blast and damage
property for miles within its blast radius. The real killer in the nuclear weapon is
the radioactivity which can radiate and kill humans by poisoning them. People
affected by radioactivity can feel its effects however minor or little the exposure
levels could be. Their children would be born badly mutated or deformed or
suffering major ailments. The radiation also kills and wipes out vegetation.

Around the globe, there are a few countries which possess nuclear arms. Usually,
the countries owning them are politically, militarily, economically, socially and
culturally stable and powerful countries. Countries owning nuclear arms include
the USA, Russia, China, France, Pakistan, Israel, United Kingdom and others. As
mentioned earlier, countries with political, military, economic, social and cultural
stability possessed nuclear weapons. However, Pakistan here is an exception. The
failed state has no stability in any of these fields. Primarily, the reason these
countries state for having nuclear weapons is to ‘defend them’. These nuclear
weapons, a means of mutually-assured destruction, increase the power-projection
capabilities of these nations placing their name among the world’s most powerful
nations.

These weapons are extremely expensive to build and maintain. Nuclear weapons
have been a symbol of power, especially in the cold-war era when the USA and
USSR were on a race to build the maximum amount of nuclear weapons possible.
They were even classified as superpowers primarily due to the fact that they
possessed nuclear weapons.

The world has witnessed a nuclear attack only once which was in 1945 when the
United States dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The
effects of these bombs were so powerful, that these blasts were considered as the
ending point of World War II. But the outcomes of these blasts were the deadliest
ever. Millions perished. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were radioactively contaminated
for many decades.
Here, we come to a conclusion that keeping nuclear weapons is unacceptable. Its
influence on other nations and its ability to show off superiority is unacceptable.
The cost that comes due to the use of such weapons is simply unbearable.
Realizing this, countries have come up with nuclear disarmament policies. The
United States take the lead in disarmament. They help in disarming other
countries’ nuclear arsenals. But the US themselves sit on one of the world’s
largest nuclear arsenals with thousands of nuclear weapons and they intend to do
nothing about it. They intend to keep them and if necessary, use them.

How can we completely give up nuclear weapons? The question arises. The
answer to it lies in the future. We must educate the future such that they hate
nuclear weapons. When that happens, the leaders of the new world will do their
part to disarm their respective countries and live in a new world without the fear
of nuclear annihilation or any other consequences as a result of detonation of
nuclear weapons. In that lies the secret to peace for all mankind.

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