Why Nuclear Weapons Should Be Banned

The instant a nuclear bomb is dropped everyone in a 6 mile radius will instantly be vaporized. They won’t have any idea on what hit them as they will have vanished long before the electrical signals from their sense organs could reach their brains, however when it comes to a nuclear bomb these people are considered the lucky ones, people 10 miles away would become instantaneously blind, and people hundreds of miles away would suffer from such a high gamma ray radiation that It will destroy their cellular structure which would lead to painful bleeding from every part of the body and ultimately death. The use of nuclear weapons is described by many as pure madness and the equivalent of global suicide. The use of nuclear weapons violates international treaties, humanitarian laws and most of all is immoral.

In the early 1930’s major discoveries were made regarding the fission of atoms, these discoveries were made by Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann and Lise Meitner. These discoveries were a key role in the development of nuclear arms as the fission of atoms is what generates the power of a nuclear bomb. These advancements in the field of physics allowed scientist such as Einstein to develop the project further And lead up to Einstein, along with many other scientist, to work together and come up with the world’s first comprehensive nuclear bomb. And it was their research which gave the United States the ability to launch nuclear weapons. And lead up to the United States testing their nuclear capabilities on the “Manhattan project”.

The entire world would be safer without nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are the only weapon in existence that is able to annihilate the human species. The existence of nuclear weapons leaves the door open to a nuclear exchange, such as the Cuban missile crisis. The list of false alarms is long; in 1979 someone fed a war game simulation into a North America air defense computer, thinking the alert was real fighter planes were...