The Devastating Nuclear Weapon

The Devastating Nuclear Weapons

During the World War 2, America started building nuclear bombs and dropped them on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs killed many people, and destroyed all the surroundings. There should be no nuclear weapons in our world because they are highly destructive, inhumane and make our world unsafe.

First, nuclear weapons are highly destructive devices. When a nuclear bomb explodes it has three main effects: thermal heat, radiation and a high-speed blast wave. The temperature of the heat in the fireball of the explosion is somewhere between 1-10 million degrees Celsius. This heat spreads and burns everything in its way. Many people die from burns after a nuclear bomb explosion. The radiation is a second effect of the nuclear bomb. ‘People exposure within 500 meters of ground zero was fatal. People exposed at distances of 3 to 5 kilometers later showed symptoms of aftereffects, including radiation-induced cancers.’ (1) The blast is one of the most destructive effects of the nuclear bomb. ‘90% of the city was leveled by the 500 mile an hour wind of the blast, which charred the victims’ skin two miles away and incinerated those directly below the detonation.’ (2) These were the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The bombs now are much more powerful and corrosive.

Second, the nuclear bombs are inhumane. It is considered okay for a soldier to kill a soldier in war. But killing innocent civilians is not tolerable in most people’s ethics. It was always considered wrong to kill an innocent person. The nuclear bomb not only kills a person, but hundreds of thousands of them. ‘The damage they cause is irreversible, and the pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons is inexcusable. When a nuclear weapon is dropped, everything is destroyed, and the radiation left over makes the place uninhabitable’(3). It is atrocious to use an atomic weapon on any populated ...

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Third, nuclear weapons make our world unsafe. Shortly after the first atomic bomb was built and used, the Soviets started making their own. ‘The American atomic weapon monopoly was short-lived…Ultimately, the two worlds (US and the former USSR) have tens of thousands of weapons in their nuclear arsenals.’(2) Nuclear weapons have spread to many countries including: US, Russia, UK, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. ‘There are still some 26,000 nuclear warheads in the world, enough to destroy civilization many times over and destroy most life on earth. Nuclear weapons make humans an endangered species.’(4) Nuclear weapons are not secure enough to protect them from being stolen and used by terrorists. Also if we start a nuclear war, and use our nuclear bomb, the world can be destroyed many times. All of this makes our world an unsafe place to live in.

The movie Fat Man and Little Boy is about how the first two atomic bombs were made. This movie connects to my thesis because it was about how the bombs were made and my thesis is that our world would be better without the bomb. Many scientists, as shown in the movie, at the end of the project were against the use of the bomb on Japan, just like I am today.

In conclusion, nuclear bombs are not good to have. They are very destructive weapons that destroy everything from people to cities, they are inhumane because they kill innocent people who don’t want war and don’t deserve to be killed, and they make our world not a safe place to be in because of what they can do and the quantity. The UN should do something about the nuclear weapons to eliminate them.

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