There is no absolutely safe defense against a nuclear bomb, so as shown through history, nuclear weapons are their own deterrents. To stop wars, nuclear weapons, such as atomic bombs, were used, but in order for the enemy to combat those weapons, they had to develop nuclear armaments themselves, which creates a cycle where the production of weapons instigates the production of more weapons16. This led to the situation in the 2000s when there were, “[…] 32,000 nuclear bombs possessed by eight nations containing 5,000 megatons of destructive energy. This is a global arsenal more than sufficient to destroy the world”17. It was only after the cold war, when the Soviet Union and the United States of America were competing to develop more and more deadly weapons in larger quantities, did countries realize that there was no need for all of the weapons they had created, and thus agreed to limit themselves to only enough weapons to eliminate the enemy.…