Currently, there are 9 countries that possess nuclear weapons including North Korea. However, there exists a regulation against going nuclear i.e. the three anti nuclear principles. Then how was it possible for them to come into possession of nuclear armaments? India, Pakistan and North Korea are newcomers. In other words, they had violated the principles to gain newclear power. The rest, the loyalits armies have been keeping them since the end of World War 2.
By possessing newclear power, they can never give convincing arguments. As excuse, they always say that newclear is indispensable for defending themselves. But are they really suited for the act of self defence?
It is true that in cold war, newclear itself restrained the two countries from using it because of it's massive destructiveness.However, there must be an easier way then every country possessing one.
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It is true that in cold war, newclear itself restrained the two countries from using it because of it's massive destructiveness.However, there must be an easier way then every country possessing one.
I like the way you expressed this. You're right to say that nuclear weapons were a deterent to war when the USSR and the US faced each other with hostile attitudes from the end of the Second World War to about 1990, but it certainly wasn't a very constructive way to live. It wasted so many resources, contaminated lots of land with the uranium "tailings" from uranium mining, and it used billions of dollars (and rubles), which could have been used for food, health care, and education. It seems that it's about time to get rid of nuclear weapons now that the cold war is over, but now they're being kept in the name of the "war on terrorism." It's feared that terrorists will get the means to produce a dirty bomb or a nuclear device and hold the world hostage. It doesn't seem to me that this argument for keeping nuclear arsenals is any better than the argument that they were needed to keep the US and USSR from fighting each other in a "hot war."
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