NUCLEAR WARFARE

Nuclear Warfare

Nuclear Warfare

Thesis Statement

Although tremendously destructive, nuclear warfare has both good and bad consequences.

Introduction

Nuclear warfare comprises of arm clash between states in which nuclear weapons are used. The thesis statement as stated above shows that nuclear warfare has good and bad consequences it solely depends upon the way nuclear weapons are used. As the study shows since World War II no country has involved in nuclear weapon fight, no such conflict would be triggered and executed largely as a matter of theoretical speculation. Moreover, the difficulty and devastating scale of the nuclear weapons used against Japan has highlighted the comparison with modern weapons. People and countries have realized nuclear war among two nuclear states would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. The areas which are hit or affected with nuclear weapons would be highly polluted with radioactive side effects. Moreover, depending on the number of weapons used in the war, such a war could have long-term destructive outcome on the earth's ecosystems and aura. Today only a few countries have nuclear weapons and considered as atomic powers still the number of dispute that could conceivably intensify to atomic war is bound. These countries include the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, Israel, Pakistan, India, and most probably North Korea. Development to extra countries remains a continuous trouble for international protection. (Floyd, 2003)

Science has always had a fundamental authority on the case of war. In the past 100 years the technological revolution, climax in the evolution of modern aircraft, tanks, artillery, and naval vessels alter the deadliness of warfare conflicts. Even so, the coming of atomic weapon in 1935 represented a quantum leap in the intensity of war. Looking ahead, the curiosity of emergent of IT and ergonomics might inspire warfare in the future. (Glenn, 2007)

Discussion

The history of the Hostility reflects the meeting of two factors: the evolution of atomic weapon and the advance of the former Soviet Union and the United States as the two prevailing military powers after World War II. (LeBaron, 1998) It may seem self-contradictory that the growth of the cataclysmal form of warfare, nuclear warfare, led to a flow of relative repose, the Cold War. As a matter of fact, nuclear weapons have been used only twice in war - the US bombings of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. This is not to say that wars on the fringe of US and Soviet concerns did not occur, but simply that war between the major powers was missing. This clause talk about the exploitation of nuclear weapons, their consequence, and the affect they have had on the character of war and armed forces strategy. (Gordin, 2007) The control of disincentive as the exchange of strategic concept for nuclear warfare helps explain the manifest contradiction mentioned.

The negative baron of nuclear weapons makes nuclear warfare basically different from conventional warfare. The single and exclusive fifteen-kiloton bomb dropped on Hiroshima, for example, destroyed 80 percent ...