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Nuclear weapons should be destroyed because the world court banned their use. If they were abolished the whole world would be secured for future generations, and if they were used their effects would be catastrophic. Nuclear weapons are a mix between to types of weapons; fission weapons and fusion weapons. When they are used a extremely radiant blast comes from the spot of the explosion. Also every bomb costs roughly around twenty million dollars.
The world court has came to various agreements and treaty's banning all use of nuclear weapons. There are many different treaty's but these are by far the most important. The first is the Outer Space Treaty- on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer moon and also other things in space. Seabed treaty- treaty on the prohibition of use and placement of weapons of mass destruction on the sea floor, ocean floor, and in the subsoil. The Moon Agreement is almost the same as the outer space treaty but it concerns are moon and the launching of missiles and use of missiles on and off of the moon. Ther...

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