Should All Nuclear Weapons Be Destroyed
Yr 10 Religion | Assessment Task 2 | | Should All Nuclear Weapons be Destroyed | | Isabel | 10/19/2012 | |
“All Nuclear Weapons should be destroyed”
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ince 1945, when the first nuclear bomb was exploded by the Manhattan Project team in the US, nuclear weapons have proliferated across the globe. Currently, the US has about 7,000 warheads and the nations of the former Soviet Union have approximately 6,000. There are enough nuclear weapons in the world to destroy all civilization as we know it.
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hey are perhaps the most powerful forces that man has ever wielded. Other countries that possess known nuclear capabilities are the United Kingdom, France, the People 's Republic of China, Pakistan, and India. When first developed, nuclear weapons were completely strategic weapons. That is, they were not designed to destroy enemy weaponry; they were designed to destroy entire cities. However, there are now small, tactical nuclear weapons in addition to the others. Besides how powerful a nuclear weapon is, there are other differences between them. They can be either a fusion or a fission device, and they can be dropped from an airplane, fired from an artillery gun, or attached to various types of rockets.
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uclear Weapons are waste of space that cause too much pain. Nuclear weapons are inhumane; they should not be used in warfare, or at any other time. The damage they cause is irreversible, and the pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons is inexcusable. When a nuclear weapon is dropped, everything is destroyed, and the radiation left over makes the place uninhabitable, though plants grow bigger and faster from the radiation left over. Nuclear power should not be used to make weapons, though nuclear energy should be used for medical reasons, and any environmentally safe uses that are for the betterment of humanity and don 't cause death - to plants and/or animals.
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uclear weapons are too powerful and destructive to be used in warfare, the
“All Nuclear Weapons should be destroyed”
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ince 1945, when the first nuclear bomb was exploded by the Manhattan Project team in the US, nuclear weapons have proliferated across the globe. Currently, the US has about 7,000 warheads and the nations of the former Soviet Union have approximately 6,000. There are enough nuclear weapons in the world to destroy all civilization as we know it.
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hey are perhaps the most powerful forces that man has ever wielded. Other countries that possess known nuclear capabilities are the United Kingdom, France, the People 's Republic of China, Pakistan, and India. When first developed, nuclear weapons were completely strategic weapons. That is, they were not designed to destroy enemy weaponry; they were designed to destroy entire cities. However, there are now small, tactical nuclear weapons in addition to the others. Besides how powerful a nuclear weapon is, there are other differences between them. They can be either a fusion or a fission device, and they can be dropped from an airplane, fired from an artillery gun, or attached to various types of rockets.
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uclear Weapons are waste of space that cause too much pain. Nuclear weapons are inhumane; they should not be used in warfare, or at any other time. The damage they cause is irreversible, and the pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons is inexcusable. When a nuclear weapon is dropped, everything is destroyed, and the radiation left over makes the place uninhabitable, though plants grow bigger and faster from the radiation left over. Nuclear power should not be used to make weapons, though nuclear energy should be used for medical reasons, and any environmentally safe uses that are for the betterment of humanity and don 't cause death - to plants and/or animals.
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uclear weapons are too powerful and destructive to be used in warfare, the
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