Nuclear War

The beginning of the nuclear war will be the end of mankind
Nuclear war will lead to Human extinction The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the second world war wiped out the entire place leaving it without any form of existence. This incident changed the history of war completely. For miles and miles the atmosphere was polluted and people had faced the radioactive rays. These rays proved to be very harmful to the upcoming generations. Children were born with all sorts of disabilities , diseases and defects. The effects were horrendous on millions of innocent civilians. Today, after over 65 years, the world finds itself in a very precarious situation. The Nuclear weapons of today are 100 times more powerful than the ones dropped on Hiroshima. During the cold war the world has always been on the brink of a nuclear war where in the destruction would be unimaginably large that it would be easy to wipe out more than one Earth. Since the Cold war, countries like China, United Kingdom and France have conducted nuclear tests. India and Pakistan have also tested their nuclear devices publicly and Iran is now on a nuclear program.The two superpowers – The United Sates and The Soviet Union have been testing and producing more nuclear weapons, and China ( the rising super power ) too has joined. Countries like India, Pakistan, China, North Korea, Israel and even Iran now are lands of nuclear power. However there is still a rapid spread of nuclear weapons among countries. A nuclear weapon is a weapon whose explosive power is generated by the process of nuclear fission (an atomic bomb) or nuclear fusion (a hydrogen or thermonuclear bomb). There are two main types of bombs which release energy from the nuclei of atoms. The simplest kind is an atomic bomb. Like a nuclear power plant, it releases great quantities of energy through a process called nuclear fission, or 'splitting', of a large unstable (radioactive) element like uranium or plutonium.A more complicated type is the hydrogen bomb, or thermonuclear bomb, which releases an even greater quantity of energy through nuclear fusion, a process which has not yet been put to peaceful uses. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also referred to as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), obligates the five acknowledged nuclear-weapon states (the United States, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, France, and China) not to transfer nuclear weapons, other nuclear explosive devices, or their technology to any non-nuclear-weapon state. This treaty was enforced in March 1970. Countries like India, Pakistan and Israel were not included in the treaty but for joining the treaty as non-nuclear-weapon states would require that they disable their nuclear weapons under international safeguards. On the other hand there are news about Russia selling missile technology and components to North Korea and nuclear weapons components to Iran. Even China is rumored to have passed the technology to Pakistan. So imagine if ever any of the Nuclear Weapon States 'let the genie out of the bottle' its going to be hard to put it back in. Imagine If Pakistan uses a nuke against India, they'll use one back. To support Pakistan China may join in and to balance the war US and Soviet would follow soon ... The impact politically will be enormous at first, but if everyone does it it'll be unstoppable. So it is important that The Nuclear weapons are only kept as war deterrents rather than being used for aggression because the world leaders must know that if the war starts then there is going to be no winner. We will all lose. In fact the world leaders must come together to protect these weapons from falling in to the hands of terrorist organizations. Let all our world leaders take a vow that they shall use Atomic energy only for peaceful purpose and for the growth of our coming generations rather that using it to destroy our future forever.

-Snehal Bindra