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Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are weapons that are based on nuclear materials.
There are several sizes of nuclear bombs, the largest nuclear bomb
ever deployed:
B17/B24
(~42,000 lbs., 10-15 megatons); the smallest nuclear bomb ever
developed:
W54
(51 lbs., .01 kilotons, .02 kilotons-1 kiloton).
The materials that are used for those
weapons are: plutonium and high- enriched uranium. The main problem at
making nuclear weapons is finding those 2 materials. Today a lot of
nuclear weapons are disarmed but the amount of plutonium still in
weapons is 43 metric tons.
Nuclear weapons like most other weapons
ought to be tested before using them, as for now US tested over than
1030 weapons.
Nuclear weapons generate massive
distraction and along with the explosion itself a radioactive
radiation appears and destroys living creatures for a long range of
time. The largest explosion ever occurred is an explosion of 15
megatons, it happened at March 1, 1954.
Nuclear weapons are very expensive to
develop; the average cost per warhead is 7000 US dollars.
Nuclear weapons developing first started
in 1920, 16 years after Einstein's theory of atoms. Many scientists
followed him in this field of atoms and the field now is one of the
most important fields of governments in the whole world.
Today there is a fund that aims to those
goals at the field of nuclear weapons:
- Finding nations and groups,
which are trying to get involved with nuclear weapons and prevent them
from doing so.
- Strengthen organizations
that fight against the threat of nuclear weapons and ultimately
eliminate the threat.
- Decrease the currency of
nuclear weapons and convince states that avidness' of using nuclear
weapons is better for them.
- Raising the level of
awareness among the public of the things might happen by developing
new, smaller, 'usable' weapons.
The fund goals
in the field of nuclear materials are
(those goals are affecting nuclear weapons in an
indirect way):
- Efforts to get the world's
attention focused on the most easily hurt sources of plutonium and
high- enriched uranium, and to keep an eye on those materials.
- Watching on the production
of plutonium and high- enriched uranium.
- Funding groups that show
the world the impact of nuclear materials on: human health, the
environment and global security.
- Helping programs that make
the public aware of the opposition to plutonium- based nuclear energy
tech.
Those technologies erase the fine line ever stood between the civilian
and the military nuclear applications.
In conclusions,
nuclear weapons can be very dangerous and the world should act against
developing new weapons, in addition to that it should disarm all the
nuclear weapons because the countries can defend themselves in other
ways less dangerous than nuclear weapons. |
