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Diannah Halim

Meyer

English I

18 April 2017

Nuclear Weapons

According to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Nuclear weapons are

defined as one of the most deadliest weapons in the world. They have caused mass destruction as

well as conflict with people's daily lives. These do not only cause these problems but also ruin

relationships between countries as well as the people. Nuclear weapons have many issues and

how as well as where it affects.

There are many problematic issues with nuclear weapons one of the many being how

much destruction they cause. This issue also harms the many environments of the Earth, the

human race continues to be seriously threatened by thousands of nuclear weapons on Sensitive

alert. Additionally, a lot are seeking to acquire unsecured weapons and materials for deadly

missions of human destruction (The Nuclear Weapons Problem). This example shows how

deadly these weapons are and how destructive they are to the human race. This is an issue

because this can harm much of our world today again leading to deadly results.

There is a lot of history of these nuclear bombs. One of the major examples is the

bombing of Hiroshima, Japan and how it destroyed almost everything. On August 6, 1945, the

United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed or wounded

nearly 130,000 people. Three days later, the United States bombed Nagasaki .74,000 were

killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries.(A Brief history of Nuclear Weapons States).
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This shows the start of the atomic bomb and its major effects not just nationally but

internationally. This was the major history behind the atomic bomb and what it did and how it

caused so much danger to the people.

These nuclear weapons have resulted in the whole world being affected. Most of the

countries affected were the countries that got hit with the bombs had got affected greatly. One

example of this is Hiroshima Japan, the Hiroshima bomb was set to detonate 1,900 feet above

ground level to maximize the effects of the blast. It struck Hiroshima with an explosive force of

12,500 tons of TNT. The city was home to approximately 280,000 civilians and 43,000 soldiers.

Approximately 100,000 of them died immediately or suffered injuries that killed them within a

few months of the attack, (The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons). This bomb killed of a major

population of the people in Japan causing them to be affected alongside some other countries that

these bombs were used in. Where it had an impact is also very important. This issue mainly

occurs in the U.S. because of the many storage areas for nuclear bombs. Other countries even

tried to test these weapons: both the French and the British believed that having their own bomb

could protect them from attack. China developed and tested its own nuclear bomb in 1964 in part

to assert its status as a great power. The British, French, and Chinese arsenals were much smaller

than the U.S. and Soviet arsenals. (The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons). This example shows

many of the other countries involved in nuclear weapons.

All in all, nuclear weapons have had a large influence in today's military as well as

society. The issues, where the issues are, who it affected, and the history also played out majorly

in the impact of nuclear weapons. These underlying issues are important because these can have

an overall large effect on the world. The effect not only can lead to human destruction, but also
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lead to world destruction.

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Works Cited

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"Nuclear Weapons." The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.

<http://www.choices.edu/resources/detail.php?id=49>

"Nuclear Weapons UNODA." United Nations. United Nations. Web. 25 May 2017.

<https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/>

"The Nuclear Weapons Problem - Confronting Nuclear War: The Role of Education, Religion,

and the Community." Google Sites. Web. 03 Apr. 2017.

<https://sites.google.com/site/confrontingnuclearwar/chapter-1>