Nuclear Weapons: A Threat To Humanity

“Nuclear weapons are unique in their destructive power, in the unspeakable human suffering they cause, in the impossibility of controlling their effects in space and time, and in the threat they pose to the environment, to future generations, and indeed to the survival of humanity.” – International Committee of the Red Cross, 2010. Nuclear weapons have been a threat to humanity since July 16, 1945, the day Oppenheimer was ready to test the first atomic bomb. Nuclear weapons are extremely dangerous in the sense they can wipe out a whole civilization with a click of a button, and then effect that civilization for years to come with radiation. It is even scarier considering that nuclear weapons do not have great security. You would think nuclear

Even if you take cover during a nuclear weapon drop, the weapons will have no problem killing you. Nuclear weapons are so strong they are able to burn “inflammable” objects to the ground. This is because the heart of a nuclear explosion is around the temperature of a several million degrees . The heat will evaporate human tissue off of bone. With all this heat, objects catch on fire and produce a firestorm. Along with that, as the heat rises, heat is drawn from the lower ground causing very dangerous hurricane winds. If you think you 're prepared for a nuclear explosion you might want to think twice now. Usually, the immediate death rate is 90%. The death rate of a nuclear explosion is higher than a natural disaster because during a nuclear explosion all the police and firemen get killed off leaving no one to help. If you were part of the 10% that survived a nuclear blast, you would most likely suffer from other life-threatening things, not including radiation. You may also think that if you were caught in a nuclear blast, other health companies would be able to help you, but sadly that’s not the case. We currently have no way of helping people that underwent a nuclear explosion. The best we could do is palliative treatment. The best our medical care could hope for is that you die in as little

The production, maintenance and modernization of nuclear products takes so much money away from our health care, education, climate change research, disaster prohibition, and much more. The nuclear weapons made are increasing too, as in 2002 we annual only spent around 40 - 60 billion dollars on making nuclear products. Instead of blowing up poor, innocent children with nuclear weapons, we should be helping them. But, we decided harm was more helpful. ICAN (international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons) states “Nuclear weapons spending in 2010 was more than twice the official development assistance provided to Africa and equal to the gross domestic product of Bangladesh, a nation of some 160 million people”. Without nuclear weapons, we could spend all the money we use making the weapons, on things that benefit this world. It’s time to focus more on human needs and not human