Nuclear proliferation

reactors, causing a nuclear accident on March 11th 2011 that would reintroduce to the world the question of “Should the use of nuclear energy continue?” Fukushima and many other critical junctures since the start of the first nuclear reactor in Idaho, in December 1951, have influenced changing attitudes towards nuclear energy throughout time. Nuclear power is one of the primary sources of energy, it provided over 19% of the total electrical output in the United States alone. (World nuclear…

and many other fields. One such technology is the development of nuclear power. Nuclear energy is “the energy held in the nucleus of an atom; it can be obtained through two types of reactions – fission and fusion”1. Recently nuclear energy has become more important because of its various uses and applications, its effects on the environment, and based on the church’s opinions and the opinions of the military and governments, nuclear energy is an important tool that humans should continue to…

There are many danger’s associated with nuclear energy in modern society. One of the main concerns of international organisations all over the world is the use of nuclear resources to make weapons of mass destruction. Due to this there are many regulations surrounding the distribution of nuclear materials in every country that has a nuclear energy programme. There is also great interest in monitoring of nuclear materials in the international community. The E.U. (European Union) is one of the…

How Nuclear Power is Safe, Profitable, and Non-Proliferate On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl 4 reactor exploded, releasing a huge amount of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. As a result of operator incompetence and a faulty design, 47 people died from thermal burns and radiation (making this the first and only nuclear-reactor disaster to cause human deaths) and around 4000 people contracted thyroid cancer from the incident. As bad as this sounds, findings show that the truth is much…

released. The public deserves to know the true extent of the North Korean threat. The public was already aware of the fact that the North Koreans sold uranium to Libya and a complete nuclear reactor to Syria. The only new information this document provides is that the North Koreans have now tried to sell full nuclear weapons to some countries. The government argued that release of the information about…

The Iran nuclear agreement has been debated in recent months as both good and bad. The good that is suppose to come from it, I believe, is minor and the derogatory results are immense. First of all, it puts some limits on Iran’s Nuclear Programs but allows them to continue to enrich uranium. The Iran agreement claims that it is a great victory that Iran would have to reduce their stockpile of uranium by 98 percent but they can sell this enriched uranium to their neighbors and receive natural…

Instruments of Terror: Chemical Weapons and Why They Should Not Be Implemented in the Warzones of Today While reading the stimulus materials provided for us, I came across the article “The Secret Life of Plants” by Ferris Jabr. He spoke of how some plants and parasites are able to detect each other with chemicals. “And at least one parasitic plant homes in on its host’s telltale chemical scent” (Jabr, 48). When I read this article I thought of how the plants use chemicals offensively. I…

risk that an extremist terrorist group, rather than a nation-state, could trigger the first nuclear war in history. This, however, is not recent news, with violent extremist organizations, such as al-Qaida, having voiced their interest in utilizing nuclear weapons against western states for well over a decade. Although this potential threat is not from a nuclear-armed state, the risk of a catastrophic nuclear attack seems to increase with each passing day. Scholars, politicians, and most…

scientific crises, can help describe and explain the national security issue of anticipating a nuclear armed Iran. First, game theory can aid in deducing behavior where players, will seek to maximize their utility and where information is the key to succeed. Secondly, the Rational Actor and Organizational Behavior Models will aid in describing systemic and state levels of Iran’s actions regarding its suspected nuclear weapons program. Lastly, Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions,…

study, non-proliferation as well as disarmament of nuclear weapons means that countries are committed not to manufacture, acquire, test or/and possess nuclear weapons and that the usage of nuclear weapons by any means should be eliminated in order to maintain the peace and security of the world. Due to the usage of nuclear weapons during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, many have experienced extreme loss and even then, there are still 22,000 remain in the world today with 2,000 nuclear tests…