Threat Of Nuclear Weapons

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Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Humankind has the power to destroy itself. Now that’s a scary thought. The nuclear age has changed the world, for the good and the bad. It is hard to argue whether the bad is greater than the good, but for now I am going to have to stick with the good. The threat of nuclear weapons deters the international powers from starting a full scale war, like that of WW2. It proved to be true, with the end of the Cold War, but the threat of nuclear war is still in the air, it may still in the end, destroy us all. We sometimes ponder to our selves, what would happen if we were forced into a nuclear war. The way life after such an incident would change as we know it drastically. Millions of lives at stake, the planet would be destroyed in the eyes of those few who will survive the torment to see it. No Government, or persons, can win a nuclear war and as long as there are nuclear missiles of mass destruction there will always be the risk of someone using them. In this age once the first missile is unleashed there is no telling where it would stop. The idea of using nuclear weapons defeats the purpose of war it self, but the threat remains because not all may hold that accountable.
1945 was the detonation of the first atomic bomb. That is what sparked the nuclear age. It was the use of these weapons on Japan, which brought an end to WW2 and a beginning of a new era. Throughout the past five decades or so, many strong military nations like United State, Soviet Union (USSR), China, France, and Britain posses their respective amounts of nuclear weapons. It is as though a country no longer deserve a respective title unless they hold nuclear weapons. And a country is defenseless without a nuclear protection. So other countries are doing whatever they can to gain access to nuclear weapons. India, Pakistan, and Israel are known to have some nuclear forces. On top of those countries other small countries such...