Why Do Atomic Bombs: Necessary Or Dangerous?

That fateful day in Hiroshima August 6, 1945, Japan will forever be the primary example of what unpredictable outcome an atomic bomb can unleash on an entire population. Although this event brought an end to World War II and a United States victory, the chain reaction of energy coming from bursts of fission was not predicted to have such a devastating effect as it did on the Hiroshima community. It was even out of the Hiroshima bombing that physicists coined the term kiloton (1,ooo tons) and megaton (1,000,000 tons) to measure the devastation in equivalence to the weight of demolition caused by TNT explosives. Overall, the danger people have experienced in being involved with atomic bomb explosions, and even the potential danger people are technically always in is not worth the risk. Nuclear weapons simply do not make the world a safer place when analyzing the immediate impacts, long-term impacts, and costs of maintaining and then dismantling the timeworn nuclear weapons. It would be simplest if all nuclear weapon states agreed as a planet to dismantle all nuclear arsenals. The Non-Proliferation Treaty is a negotiation where the goal is to ultimately abolish all nuclear weapons. According to one source, five nations, of which include the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China, have signed this treaty. Other …show more content…
Most notable of the long-lasting damage comes in the form of cancer, caused by slow exposure to radiation, although large amounts can enter a person’s system more easily directly following the explosion. Other unknown causes of death are blamed on the nuclear bomb. In addition to illness and the confirmed and assumed deaths of loved ones, the rebuilding of a community is a long process. Humanity is no doubt put in jeopardy of decimation when the risk of nuclear arms is always on the