Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Nuclear weapons have been prevalent in world society since WW2, however they also haven’t been used since the end of WW2 so it is questioned to what extent they are useful in society nowadays. Do they act as a good deterrence for to keep the peace between feuding nations, or do they cause more harm than good as at any point a ‘button’ could be pressed and world annihilation could happen? Supposedly the cold war was supposed to be the ending of the tension between the east and west however in…

in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing half the people in the first day and the others died of radiation poisoning, while in the end it did end the war it promoted the idea of killing on a massive scale. The Cold War has popularized the use of using nuclear weapons as a deterrent which creates lots of tension between countries; if one country, shoots a nuke at another, then the other country will fire back, and this process will repeat until the amounts of death and destruction will become truly…

The most obvious example of military globalization is the nuclear age and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction”. However, this of course is not a new; military globalization, like other forms of globalization, have continued to exist for centuries, whether it was the origin of weapons, rise of advancements in rifles, the introduction of handguns, or even the introduction of security regimes such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization amongst other organizations…

Similarly, the role of consent can ensure that state interests are served. As consent will likely not be given if states view the law as harmful to their interest, this will trigger further negotiations until an agreement is reached, therefore providing a system where states can ensure that their interests and welfare are protected. Critically, if a state is not a participating party in a lawmaking process, its state interests will be unprotected. This is seen in OPEC where as an overall major…

of the Cuban missile crisis are: Superpower tension between the two nations, Fidel Castro’s new reign over Cuba and the Bay of Pigs invasion. Khrushchev saw this ‘as a way to level the playing field’ (History.com) because he ‘knew that the US had nuclear weapons in Italy and Turkey aimed at targets in the USSR’ (The national…

On January 29th, 2002, American President George W. Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address. At the time, the United States was still reeling from the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks just four months before, and the world’s eyes eagerly descended upon the White House in anticipation of President Bush addressing the next phase of the government’s response to the acts of terrorism. The public searched for tangible goals and promises from the government, anything to quell…

Introduction With the beginning of the Space-Age, and the first iteration of Satellite Imagery, society saw progress in many fields for the betterment of welfare, security and knowledge. This new form of imagery has influenced the way we monitor, map, plan and preserve our world, as well as how we perceive our universe. This study hopes to discuss the major changes satellite imagery has had on archeology, meteorology, and political or military surveillance. It will also include a brief…

Project was the United States answer to the growing Nazi forces. America was fearful that Germany might develop an atomic bomb (Encyclopedia of U.S. History 950). The atomic bomb was based off the science of nuclei splitting. This is also known as nuclear fission, using the…

1.8: Mossadegh and Oil Nationalization Crisis Amid the development to nationalize the Iranian oil industry, the US-Iranian relationship confronted an emergency in 1951. Iran's oil industry was the most essential industry in the nation. It was a guideline wellspring of remote trade incomes. Be that as it may, it was under the control of British. For a considerable length of time, the British government had gotten from the Iranian oil operation for more salary than the Iranian government itself.…

our nation’s wars. As the Iraq war grew unpopular, the analytical focus shifted deficiencies in intelligence analysis, war-planning, and counterinsurgency doctrine. There is not much focus on the theories of democratization, energy security, non-proliferation, and of failed states justifying the war and occupation. As the studies are focused on being cost efficient, recent U.S. wars proven that overthrowing dictators ruling over fractious organizations might cause lasting conflicts rather than…