Pros And Cons Of Nuclear Weapons

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission, in a fission bomb, or a combination of fission and fusion, like in a thermonuclear weapon. These weapons help make the world a more safe place, which is exactly why I believe that even though they are expensive, one Trillion Dollars over 30 years expensive, they are a necessary thing for today’s life. The production and use of nuclear weapons provide many jobs, help countries and nations be more or stay powerful, also make people not want to use them in a way. Nuclear weapons let countries maintain power or obtain power through military advantages. The weapons are weapons of mass destruction that nobody wants to mess with, causing other countries to respect the countries and nation that have these weapons. The plethora of ways that nuclear weapons can be deployed only help make the other countries that don't have nuclear weapons respect the ones that do even more. The ways that the weapons can be deployed are explained by a nuclear triad, which is the delivery of a strategic nuclear arsenal by …show more content…
This brings us to the idea of mutual assured destruction (M.A.D.); a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Take the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 for example, those two bombings performed with nuclear weapons were a result of retaliation from the Allies because of how the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This example shows how the weapons can cause a massive amount of destruction and they will cause more nuclear weapons to be deployed on themselves and will cause unneeded damage on their own