There are many students and other citizens around the world who obviously want to live life to the fullest. So as a young student at UA, I want to be able to do my part in protecting and preserving our environment and also the world. This topic captured my attention because I view a nuclear war as a problem that will inevitably destroy life as we know it. There are multiple opinions on whether a nuclear war is a large enough problem where people should avoid it at all cost or simply build shelters for a potential nuclear war. My stance on this situation is the government should avoid a nuclear war without fail and possibly even ban nuclear weapons altogether. A nuclear war would obviously be catastrophic to the world but there are many opposing views on how people should protect themselves from this event. I have found three viewpoints on the matter with one I agree with. The first viewpoint is that people cannot …show more content…
A great way for the medical community to be involved in this issue is too loudly voice their reasoning that they are not able to protect people against a nuclear war and there are just too few resources to go around. I believe that this would help the government realize that all nuclear weapons should be banned because the risk is simply too great. The authors believe that even though the medical community could help a great deal, the community has been less vocal over the years. The writers referred to two people who scold the medical community stating: “Indeed, it is over a decade ago now since The Lancet published anything remotely relevant to nuclear weapons as a threat to health… Now is the moment for physicians and scientist to build new opportunities for political progress to defuse the danger of a new more regionally focused nuclear arms race” (Nuclear War: A Greater Threat than
In today’s society many countries and even citizens of the United States question the U.S. government’s decision to get in involved in nuclear warfare. These people deemed it unnecessary and state that the U.S. is a hypocrite that preaches peace, but causes destruction and death. Before and during World War II the U.S. was presented with a difficult decision on whether or not to develop and use the atomic bomb.
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. On August 15th, the Japan announced unconditional surrender in World War II. To this day historians still discuss why the U.S. decided to use the atomic bombs. Orthodox historians argue that the decision to drop the bombs was a military one designed purely to defeat the Japanese. Revisionist historians argue that the bombs were not needed to defeat Japan; the bombs were meant to shape the peace by intimidating the Soviets. After analyzing the documents in The Manhattan Project it has become clear that the U.S. used the bombs during WWII not only to defeat the Japanese, but also to intimidate the Soviet Union
One of the most controversial decisions that have been made, in the history of the United States, was Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The ever so controversial topic of the dropping of the atomic bombs has successfully driven people insane. People feel strongly that this decision was atrocious and unnecessary, while others believe the polar opposite, that it was completely necessary. Some historians argue that the human cost to the Japanese population can never justify the use of such weapons. Other historians see it from an optimistic perspective, that it would not have been moral if atomic weapons had not been used to end the war as quickly as possible. President Harry S.
When there is a weapon that can level an entire city and killing 66,000 people while injuring 69,000 people (atomicarhive.com) with long term health effects, people will obviously be scared. People fear that there won’t be a future for humankind. If a nuclear war were to happen, half a country to an entire country can easily be destroyed to the point where it becomes inhabitable due to radiation. Through a Stanford University psychological study of young survivors of World War II, it has been found that almost half the subjects surveyed believe that a nuclear war will result in the complete annihilation of humankind (Koschin and Kabachenko 4). The study also found that “95 percent [of the subjects] expressed a serious concern about the danger of war and 44 percent lived in fear, waiting for war” (Koschin and Kabachenko 2). Generations after the atomic bomb era will continuously fear that every war can become the world-ending nuclear war. The American government also sees the catastrophic potential of nuclear weapons and began to disarm their nuclear weapon stockpile and ban future nuclear test from being performed. Treaties such as the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of N...
Nuclear weapons are a problem that the world is facing today as countries want to have their
The fact that the United States resolved to drop an atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan shocked many people, including U.S. citizens. The U.S. chose a brutal weapon when choosing the atomic bomb, as proven by the thousands of deaths it caused. Today, some people still question the motives for such a ruthless choice of weaponry. The atomic bomb, however destructive and questionable, seemed to be the only way to ensure “unconditional surrender” of the Japanese. The atomic bomb was, in fact, “a clear step designated to force Japan’s unconditional surrender;” however, this statement fails to give attention to the larger picture that influenced the U.S.’s decision to use the atomic bomb. By using the atomic bomb before any other nation
Eric Schollser argues in his paper “Today’s Nuclear Dilemma,” that the nuclear weapons in the world, and the issues that they are associated with, should be of major concern to today’s society. Nuclear Weapons were of world wide concern during the time of the Cold War. These weapons, and their ability to cause colossal devastation, brought nightmares into reality as the threat of nuclear war was a serious and imminent issue. The US and Russia both built up their inventories of these pieces of artillery, along with the rest of their arsenals, in an attempt to overpower the other. This past terror has become a renewed concern because many of the countries with these nuclear weapons in their control have started to update their collections. One
The debate over if humans can survive a nuclear war or not is an interesting topic. The article, “Let’s Be Clear. There is No Surviving a Nuclear War,” is written by James E. Doyle and Ira Helfand. The article was posted on Newsweek.com on August 20, 2015. This article was written to challenge the argument that people can survive a nuclear war. The authors are hoping that the audience will carry out action to prevent nuclear wars all together. An unfamiliar audience, or an audience who is mildly opposed to their views, are the type of audience that Doyle and Helfand are writing this article for. The main claim of this article is that the devastating
There were several reasons that the U.S. should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. To begin, on Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese had surprised attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which had destroyed many Americans ships of the Pacific fleet. Many Americans soldiers had died of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. didn’t want to waste all the resource used in building the atomic bombs since it was spend million of dollar on the Manhattan project. Moreover, the atomic bombs had save many of the Americans soldiers life by stopping the invasion of Japan which would have killed many more Americans. The Americans wanted all the credit to themselves since they fought with Japanese battle to battle and later on the Russian soviet union
Scott D. Sagan, the author of chapter two of “More Will Be Worse”, looks back on the deep political hostilities, numerous crises, and a prolonged arms race in of the cold war, and questions “Why should we expect that the experience of future nuclear powers will be any different?” The author talks about counter arguments among scholars on the subject that the world is better off without nuclear weapons. In this chapter a scholar named Kenneth Waltz argues that “The further spread of nuclear weapons may well be a stabilizing factor in international relations.” He believes that the spread of nuclear weapons will have a positive implications in which the likely-hood of war decreases and deterrent and defensive capabilities increase. Although there
On August 6, 1945 an American atomic bomb with the potential to incinerate anything in a one-mile radius was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days after the attack on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan with the same catastrophic effects. It was, indeed, a climactic point in history, but was it really necessary? The dropping of the bombs was not necessary, because it was predicted before that Japan would have lost the war anyways even if there were no atomic bombs dropped.
On August 9, 1945 the United States committed one of the most inhumane acts of all time. When the U.S dropped the atomic bomb, “Little Boy” over Hiroshima, Japan; about 140,000 people were killed or died months after from radiation after effects (Mason, 2014). Three days later, about 80,000 people died in Nagasaki, Japan when the U.S dropped the second bomb over the city (“Hiroshima,” 2016). Not only did many people die in these places, many buildings and homes were destroyed because of the explosion of the bombs. Other countries were clueless as to the construction of an atomic bomb. Most countries were shocked when they heard the news. Terror, anxiety and agony were felt by the Japanese people, due to the horrific crime of the United States. President Truman made the choice to launch the atomic bombs in order to bring the war to an
From the creation of nuclear weapons at the start of the Cold War to today, the world has experienced struggles fueled by the want of nuclear power. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran’s nuclear weapon program are some of the most important conflicts over nuclear weapons. Thanks to the use of nuclear weapons in 1945 to end World War II, the world has come extremely close to a nuclear war, and more countries have began developing nuclear power. Unmistakably, many conflicts since the start of the Cold War have been caused by nuclear weapons, and there are many more to come.
In 1945, when the Americans bombed Hiroshima, Japan, approximately 140,000 men and women were instantly killed by the effects of American nuclear defense. With such extreme brutality and force how many people must die for one to finally realize the strengths of nuclear bombs and what damage they can cause. Nuclear weapons should be outlawed because they kill thousands of innocent humans at a time, destroy the environment, and inviolate human’s right to moral and personal freedoms.
According to Stouten, John the author of the article the likelihood of a nuclear attack is greater than ever says that countries in the Middle East and Korea are building nuclear arms every day” (15). The Middle East won’t stop making weapons of mass destruction until someone or the US comes in there and destroys or seizes all of their weapons. We should be concerned about Weapons of mass destruction and never let it just float by us. Some Politicians don’t understand the threats of other countries and there weapons of mass destruction that could wipe out a great and big city like San Francisco or New York, New York and it could kill millions of people and a lot more than that. All we have to do is look at places that have experienced this like Hiroshima, Japan or Chernobyl. We don’t want this to happen to us because the toll of the damage would be unbearable to see or hear about. Are country hasn’t experienced something like that before except 9/11.