Pros And Cons Of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE THREAT THEY POSE TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY INTRODUCTION

The fundamental logic behind the establishment of this research report is to provide a basic understanding of nuclear weapons, as well as to investigate the danger and hindrance they pose to global security and the maintenance, or attainment of world peace. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction which are essentially targeted at civilian populations and they rely overwhelmingly for their impact on the threat of massive loss of civilian life, the use or threat of use of these weapons violates international humanitarian law which seeks to regulate the conduct of warfare and thus the matter of nuclear weapons is an issue worth discussing when

The act of abolishing nuclear weapons would constitute the complete and multi-lateral disarmament of all current nuclear weapons and material earmarked specifically for their development or production. One of the point raised as a reason for the abolishment of nuclear weapons is that Nuclear weapons are by their very nature, indiscriminate and disproportional and any weapon which cannot be used in a reasonable manner should not be accepted by humanity. Over the past sixty years the world has been accustomed to limited warfare and precision weapons, which enable military objectives to be achieved with minimal loss of civilian life. The logic behind the establishment of nuclear weapons was their indiscriminative destructive power and as such their use could efficiently kill tens of thousands of civilians and their catastrophic environmental side-effects would harm many more all across the world. These impacts could never be morally acceptable, particularly in the basis of one’s national security strategy, they place humanity and most forms of life in jeopardy of obliteration and as such no state or leader can be entrusted, morally with that power and responsibility. Another point for the abolishment of nuclear weapons is that there will always be the risk that these weapons might fall into the wrong hands. These weapons might fall in the hands of extremist groups who are constantly and actively seeking to cause instant, egregious harm to their ideological and political enemies. These extremist do not lack the funding suitable for the acquisition of such weapons and as a result the fear of the weapons falling into the wrong hand has never been