Nuclear Weapons Are Bad
...will be instantly vaporized. The people will literally not have known what hit them, because they will have vanished before the electrical signals from their sense organs can reach their brains. These are the people who are lucky, when it comes to a nuclear bombing. Those within a ten mile radius will have instantly become blind, and people even further away would become blind if they were looking in the same direction as the bomb. People thousands of miles away will die from gamma ray radiation, because the radiation will have destroyed their cellular structure, leading to painful bleeding from every orifice in their bodies (Hoffman). The use of nuclear weapons has been described by many as sheer madness, and something that if used is the equivalent of global suicide. The use of nuclear weapons violates international treaties, humanitarian laws, and is above all immoral. The only option to solve for this atrocity would be to ban all nuclear weapons now and forever.
In the early 1930's key discoveries regarding the fission of atoms are made by Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann and Lise Meitner(Nuclear Age Peace Foundation ). These discoveries are key to the development of nuclear arms, because it is this fission action that creates the power generated by nuclear weapons (Freudenrich). These progressions in the field of science and physics, later allow for later scientist such as Einstein to further their research on the topic. Einstein, along with other scientists of his age, came together to come up with the world's first comprehensive nuclear bomb. It was their development of nuclear weapons that gave the United States the ability to launch nuclear weapons. In the 1940's the United States began testing their nuclear capabilities in the "Manhattan" project. On August 9, 1945 at 9:44 a.m. Bockscar, a B-29 carrying Fat Man, the world's third atomic bomb,...
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