Nuclear Strikes
Scientifically, there is no obstacle for a nuclear or atomic bomb. There
are no secrets in Nuclear Science anymore. Anyone with a reasonable physics
degree and access to a good technical library could design a workable atomic
bomb in less than 6 months, so why hasn't anyone. Maybe there has been,
no one is exactly sure. In the last 52 years there has been enough nuclear
warheads made to destroy every city in the world and still have thousands left
over.(Church 40) This all happened during the Cold War, a period of 45 years (1947-
1991), between mainly the two superpowers (United States and the Soviet
Union). Other nations were involved, and 2 wars were fought over it (Korea
and Vietnam) and a nuclear war was almost waged (Cuban Missile Crisis).
Now with the breakup of the Soviet Union into a loose Commonwealth
no one is exactly sure who has all the weapons.
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U.S. reconnaissance photograph of soviet missile s...
Hyde Park Protesters October 1962 during the Cuban...Certain nations inherited
them, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Russia, while others tried stealing
them, Iran, Libya, and North Korea. And since the breakup certain people
have been caught stealing the materials needed to make a bomb. These
terrorists have never been caught in the United States but numerous times in
Europe.(www.pbs.org) As a matter of fact, the Russians say someone stole a bomb
simulator, which will explode and make mushroom cloud but has no nuclear
component.(Wilkie) People know that despite efforts to keep control on the old
Soviet stockpile and waste, terrorists are getting the plutonium and
uranium needed to make nuclear weapons to kill masses of people.
This is kind of the history of the nuclear & atomic bomb: (all from Williams)
The first atomic bomb was thought up by Albert Einstein in the late
30's. In 1942 Enrico Fermi brought about...
Nuclear Weapons...
With the threat of Nuclear attacks and all this talk of War in Iraq this essay makes a very interesting read. A lot of facts, quoted very well too.
Also, I think the awareness of such things has hieghtened, however the bad thing is that it is done through Iraq - by Bush and his puppy dogs (Blair in particular). It is almost as if they (Iraq) are being made scapegoats - when it is all plain obvious that all Bush wants is Oil and control over the middle-east. He know's also that talking about and making Iraq look as if they posses such desctructible weapons - will make him look a good leader, increase his popularity amongst his country and also at the same time make a good business deal with other silly world leaders - at the expense of a War.
Errr... why is it that no one is questioning why other countries, Isreal in particular, are allowed to posses much more dangerous weapons of mass destruction - in fact they ae supported by the US!
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