of the difficulty regulating the network generates cyber-crimes such as data destruction. These crimes are also used for political cyber-warfare at present. One of the well-known cases of cyber-warfare is the Stuxnet worm. This cyber-attack arose in Iran from 2007 to 2012. The United States and Israel implemented Stuxnet…
competing for nuclear weapon to show how powerful is each country. Iran wanted to be in that competition but the United States prevented Iran from having nuclear program. Does that mean Iran is not willing to get it’s own nuclear program? I would like to say NO because Iran is in arms racing with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries. So they want to show they strength to every country. There are many examples of arms racing in history such as naval arms race before and after WWI and nuclear arms…
Nuclear weapons are a device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or a combination of the two processes. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. This bomb releases the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of Explosive Trinitrotoluene (TNT). Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons to mankind.One hit can destroy an entire country. The United States was the first…
Newshour). Mearsheimer elaborates that Iran having such weapons would prevent future conflicts with other Middle East states like Iraq and Israel, but also would also prevent outside nations such as the United States from making threatening overtures (PBS Newshour). Unlike Waltz though, Mearsheimer admits there is a small chance that a conventional war involving Iran would carry the possibility of “inadvertent escalation” (PBS Newshour) and lead to the use of nuclear weaponry and did not fully…
WMD. It can range from atomic or nuclear weapons to chemical and biological weapons. According to ProCon.com, there are currently 26 countries with WMD programs and there are many other countries that are suspected to have them…
will suffer if they bomb another country with nuclear weapons; on the contrary, it is not unsafe to assume that they will readily bomb other countries to instigate terror in people. Therefore, it is irrefutable that extreme measures need to be taken to prevent terrorist organizations laying hands on these weapons. The proliferation of nuclear technology or weapons to countries with high terrorist activity is thus highly risky. If proliferation to Iran is successful, “the likelihood that…
The disadvantages of nuclear energy are; national risk, environment problems and negative effect one human life. The first reasons why nuclear energy is a disadvantage for people is that it poses a national risk. There are many factors in life that may cause national risk. One of big factors which can play a big part in national risk. Nuclear products many factors to make life better, but people also use it to produce many dangerous materials; for example, weapons that are a threat to human life…
Macro Country Analysis in Iran I. Executive Summary: II. Introduction III. Political Risk: Political/social unrest and instability: Earlier, Iran was under the rule of Shah. In 1979, Iran declared itself as the theocratic republic under the Ayatollah Khomeini’s guidance and was then named as the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1979, Islamic students captured 52 American students and held them hostage with the demand that they return Shan to Iran. This situation created…
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…
“Iran, proud and passionate, has been a conundrum since its 1979 revolution” (Wright). Iran’s government is hindered from becoming greater than it is because of the problems it faces. This forces Iran to be off par with many of the fastest growing countries in the world. The results of Iran’s inability to economically grow are poverty and socioeconomic instability in the nation. Iran must change to improve its government by fixing the problems that the country faces. The government of Iran faces…