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The following paper looks at the problem of nuclear weapons and addresses three important questions: How serious is the problem posed by nuclear weaponry? What are the causes of the problems posed by nuclear weapons and their proliferation? And can these weapons be controlled or eliminated? In the end, the paper will conclude that nuclear weapons are a significant threat because of their capacity to wipe out human life - and because nuclear proliferation is continuing unabated in our current international climate.

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Please note: not all of the bibliographic information for the sources in the text was provided The Problem of Nuclear Weapons The following paper looks at the problem of nuclear weapons and addresses three important questions: How serious is the problem posed by nuclear weaponry? What are the causes of the problems posed by nuclear weapons and their proliferation? And can these weapons be controlled or eliminated? In the end, the paper will conclude that nuclear weapons are a significant threat because of their capacity to wipe out human life - and because nuclear proliferation is continuing unabated in our current international

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The paper discusses President Obama's call for the abolition of nuclear weapons from the theoretical perspective of neorealism and explains that it indicates that eliminating nuclear weapons is unlikely because security is the principal goal of a nation-state and nuclear weapons provide the ultimate level of security. The paper asserts that in accordance with neorealist theory, nation-states should unceasingly expand their national strength in order to achieve absolute security, which in the nuclear age requires nation-states without nuclear weapons capabilities to develop them, and requires nation-states with nuclear capabilities to expand them while ensuring that other nation-states do not acquire them.

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"Analyzing President Obama's call for the abolition of nuclear weapons from the theoretical perspective of neorealism indicates that eliminating nuclear weapons is unlikely because security is the principal goal of a nation-state and nuclear weapons provide the ultimate level of security. In accordance with neorealist theory, nation-states should unceasingly expand their national strength in order to achieve absolute security, which in the nuclear age requires nation-states without nuclear weapons..."

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This paper reviews the book "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons" through comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of its authors, Kenneth Waltz and Scott Sagan. The claims of both Waltz and Sagan are examined as well as the larger arguments from realists and liberals regarding the spread of nuclear weapons. Waltz's realist arguments are contrasted with the more international liberalism of Sagan's protests against adding nuclear weapons in nations which have not traditionally had such programs. The current situation in North Korea is highlighted as an example for each perspective.

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"Nuclear weapons have become the most powerful bargaining tool in the world today, evidenced by the situations in North Korea and Iran and the considerable international unrest they have caused. Nuclear powers fear the addition of new nuclear nations, and nations which do not possess such capabilities see them as potential bargaining chips and defense mechanisms against the more powerful nations. In their joint project The Spread of Nuclear Weapons, Kenneth Waltz and Scott Sagan each defend their view regarding the spread of nuclear weapons. Waltz's realist viewpoint sees the increase in the number of nuclear nations as a potentially stabilizing factor in international relations and strongly believes that more nuclear weapons can contribute to stability in highly volatile areas, similar to the detente achieved between India and Pakistan after each of those traditionally antagonistic nations established nuclear capability."

Tags:nuclear, weapons, Kenneth, Waltz, Scott, Sagan, detente, North, Korea

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The paper argues that nuclear arms are an ugly, terribly real aspect of today's political world, and they are now as much a part of maintaining some peace in a roundabout way. The paper also argues that those states holding nuclear weapons are immune to certain old styles of war. But, the paper points out, this is not the same thing as enjoying peace or security; for example, India and Pakistan are not going to engage in a major land battle over Kashmir because they are nuclear capable nations with warheads that can reach Islamabad and Mumbai. The paper relates, however, that with new weapons come new tactics, many of which are already flourishing under Al-Qaeda and other Islamist organizations.

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"Nuclear arms are an ugly, terribly real aspect of today's political world. They are now as much a part of maintaining some peace in a roundabout way. No new weapons technology has ever been discarded by warlords or leaders of nation states. I would argue that those states holding nuclear weapons are immune to certain old styles of war. But this is not the same thing as enjoying peace or security. For example, India and Pakistan are not going to engage in a major land battle over Kashmir because they are nuclear capable nations with warheads that can reach Islamabad and Mumbai. But with new weapons come new tactics, many of which are already flourishing under Al-Qaeda and other Islamist organizations."

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The paper intersperses facts about nuclear weapons with a narrative from the perspective of Bob and Loretta Lehman and Laura Fermi. The writer describes what it is like to be caught in a nuclear attack. The paper explains that before the nuclear weapons were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was very little testing done on the effects that a nuclear weapon would have. The writer describes the two different bombs used, one being a gun-type nuclear weapon and the other an implosion-type nuclear weapon. In conclusion, the writer expresses the feeling that it was not necessary to drop the bomb on Japan.

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"I was sitting at home, when Charles, (her son) ,came running came into the room screaming, we blew up all of Japan - this is how Loretta Lehman learned of the United States newfound power, the nuclear weapon. At first I was scared, because bob was still in Germany, but I then went and talked to my neighbors and they said that Japan was going to surrender, and the u.s. would win, that is when all my worries went away.
"Loretta's husband, Bob, was stationed in France, but was back on the U.S. side when the bombs were dropped, he had this to say. Back then, I felt that dropping the bomb was a good idea, but as time has gone on, and I have thought about it more, I am realizing some fault that could have gone along with it. After the war in Europe had ended, we were shipped to the U.S. and were going to be re-stationed somewhere in the pacific, but then [the nuclear weapon] was dropped, and the war ended. I asked Bob why he felt the U.S. felt the bomb needed to be dropped. [My company] felt that by dropping the bomb, the war would end sooner, quicker, and with less loss of life."

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This paper examines the role of nuclear weapons in relations among the world's nations, asserting that international relations have been transformed through the use of nuclear strategy. The paper notes that the Bush Doctrine that was adopted in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was presented to the public as a reformulation of America's traditional moral mission; a way to preserve American values in the face of the new threat of global terrorism. The paper takes the stance that the possession of weapons of nightmarish power is permitted only to those who can demonstrate that they hold the moral high ground; in the end, the threat of force replaces the use of force, yet that threat remains ever present. The paper concludes that as long as a superpower dreams of obtaining more weapons, there will always be more "enemies" for the superpower to fight - more enemies over whom it can demonstrate its moral superiority by virtue of its possessing a superior supply of nuclear weapons.

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"Khrushchev backed down, and the shell game moved back to Southeast Asia. Unable to deploy forces directly against each other, the two blocs faced off through a kind of proxy war. Once again, matters turned on the relative legitimacy of the two systems. Vietnam was presented to the public as a moral war, with a virtuous nuclear-armed power against its sinister Communist rivals. The decision whether to use or not to use nuclear weapons rested ultimately with persons of high moral standing - those within the American system who held what amounted to a "priestly knowledge" of these weapons' real capabilities, "Political leaders in the United States have failed throughout the nuclear age to consult with, or disclose to, the public the occasions on which the use of nuclear weapons was seriously contemplated." (Taylor) Nuclear strategy, like the decision to go to war was reserved for an elite few. The shadowy atmosphere that hung over America's nuclear strategy was reflected in the full daylight of the public controversy over the Vietnam Conflict. The public saw what America's elite could not - that the war was not winnable because American nuclear weapons could not protect America from foreign nuclear weapons. The military and civilian administrations could not define victory because there could be no victory. (Hirschbein 37) The destruction of communism in a particular region did nothing to stop the threat of nuclear destruction. Nuclear weapons deterred themselves - at least in the hands of major powers."

Tags:diplomacy, global, peace, united, nations

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This paper details the four threats of nuclear annihilation that the Russian nuclear program has created: accidental launch due to a malfunction, failure of the Russian early warning system, a launch of a nuclear weapon because of a rogue commander, the detonating of a stolen nuclear warhead that has been smuggled out of Russia, and the detonation of a nuclear weapon that was built with Russian fissile material. The paper also describes the meager steps that Russia and the United States have taken to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Most importantly the paper stresses that public awareness of this critical situation is imperative to prevention of such a disaster.

Tags:nuclear, russia, ussr, weapons

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This paper evaluates how much the United States and the Soviet Union knew about each other's nuclear capability during the Cold War.

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"The debate over the production of nuclear weapons began with the announcement of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The power of the weapon and the devastation it wrought frightened many Americans, not for the least reason because they considered what would happen if the weapon were turned on them, but also out of a humanitarian concern for the horror and death the bomb brought to Japan. The arguments have continued on both sides ever since, and even today in the post-Cold War era, the issue remains vital because more and more countries are seeking and achieving atomic capability. Nuclear proliferation, or the spread of nuclear weaponry to more and more countries, has long been a fear of the U.S. government, and efforts have been made to control the distribution of nuclear materials. Another worry today is that technology has advanced..."

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A backwater of the Cold War since hostilities of the Korean War ended, has been the divided Korean peninsula. Since the 1990s, this issue has repeatedly captured the attention of the world, with the generally assumed rise of North Korea to the status of a nuclear power.

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"Since the 1990s the divided Korean peninsula, which had been a backwater of the Cold War since the end of hostilities in the Korean War in the 1950s, has repeatedly captured the world's attention with the widely-assumed rise of North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) to the status of a nuclear power. Given the status of the current dictatorial regime of North Korea as a virtual international "pariah" state - a state in which a massive military exists side-by-side with a primitive, faltering economy and even widespread famine - its nuclear capability has dominated all discussions of its foreign relations and strategies to engage it."

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