Threat Of Nuclear Weapons

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as North Korea, Iraq, Iran, and Libya missions seem to be to obtain nuclear power at any cost, in order to gain some access of power in the world. War has become more and more deadly with time, because of the advancement of technology. A single nuclear weapon can kill hundreds of thousands of people, and when carried on a ballistic missile, can travel intercontinental distances in less than half an hour. Like in Japan, 1945 President Harry S. Truman decided to allow the bombs to be dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because, he said, he believed they might save thousands of American lives. For maximum psychological impact, they were used in quick succession, one over Hiroshima on August 6, and the other over Nagasaki on August 9. These cities had not previously been bombed, and thus the bombs' damage could be accurately assessed. U.S. estimates put the number killed in Hiroshima at 66,000 to 78,000 and in Nagasaki at 49,000. Japanese estimates gave a combined total of 240,000. The deployment of tens of thousands of these weapons, primarily by the United States and the Soviet Union, has threatened annihilation with l...