Nuclear Weapons   Tags: atom_bomb, cold_war, nuclear_weapons, pathfinder, pathfinders, thermonuclear_bomb, war, weapons  

• United States Military Policy
• Nuclear Weapons
• Military Policy
• Nuclear Nonproliferation
• Nuclear Disarmament
• Hydrogen Bomb
• Arms Race
• Cold War
• Atom Bomb

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"An explosive device that uses radioactive materials as the primary fuel for explosion.... At least nince countries are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. South Africa is believed to have had nuclear weapons but to have destroyed them prior to its transition from an apartheid regime. As of 2006, the total world stockpile of nuclear weapons is estimated to be approximately 27,000." - Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare 2007.

• Does having nuclear weapons make the United States safer?
• Is nuclear annihilation a serious threat?
• What right does the United States have to control the nuclear weapon development of other countries?
• Does having nuclear weapons make India more of a threat to the safety of the United States? North Korea? Iran?
• Is nuclear weapon proliferation a serious problem?
• Should the United States attack countries suspected of building nuclear weapons in order to prevent them from success?
• Is missile defense a true defense? Is any political body controlled by nuclear threat?
• What happens when everyone knows no one will use them, do nuclear weapons lose their threat/safety potential?
• Is it time for complete, global, nuclear disarmament? Who will begin the process?
• How are nuclear weapons tested? Explain what that means in terms of fall-out and poisons.
• Where was nuclear weaponry first developed? How did it snowball into a global race for arms?

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