Nuclear Weapon Disarmament
Nuclear weapons are the ultimate evil. They are the invention that humanity wishes it could un-invent. Their existence puts the entire world at risk. There are several attempts to limit nuclear weapons technology, testing, and possession, but all have fallen short. The world must shift its focus from a world in which we try to justify the possession of nuclear weapons, to a world where we acknowledge the fact that nuclear weapons have no place in the new millennium; nuclear abolition is our only choice.
In December of 1997, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 60, a four page guideline for the use of US nuclear weapons. PDD 60 was not released to the public, and ...
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United States is not the only culprit. Today, roughly 52,000 nuclear warheads exist (Kressley). The large number of nuclear weapons is a huge risk to the entire planet.
Many argue that there cannot be a nuclear-free world. They claim that you cannot un-invent something that has become the cornerstone of our defense for over 50 years. “The elimination of nuclear weapons is called utopia by people who forget that for so many decades the end of the Cold War was considered utopia,” (Smith). We can change the basis of our defense. Conventional weapons have now caught up with nuclear weapons in terms of effectiveness. The main reason we have nuclear weapons is so that in a first strike, we can take out an entire countries infrastructure, radar stations, command posts, missile silos, railroads, power stations, and military bases in a matter of minutes, crippling, if not all out destroying, the opposition. Conventional weapons have just recently caught up. During the Gulf War, CNN ...
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but behind closed doors, the United States is still very dependent on nuclear weapons, and shows no sign of nuclear disarmament.
The most convincing argument for nuclear disarmament is the fact that one of the main advocates for nuclear disarmament is General George Lee Butler. General Butler was the four-star general who was the number one man in America for nuclear weapons for three years in the early 1990’s. Butler was commander of the headquarters of US nuclear forces, the US Strategic Command. He is now one of the leaders of the disarmament movement. In a conversation with the Russian Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, Butler said that he felt that it was no longer necessary to ...
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