Why do nations want nuclear weapons?

Why do nations want nuclear weapons?

Understanding the reasons why a country chooses to go nuclear are complex, variable and speculative, but I would offer as a hypothesis four principal, though often overlapping factors: fear, security, enhancing the country’s bully potential or countering another country’s bully potential, and prestige.

Why is the development of nuclear weapons a bad thing?

Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons on earth. One can destroy a whole city, potentially killing millions, and jeopardizing the natural environment and lives of future generations through its long-term catastrophic effects. The dangers from such weapons arise from their very existence.

Can any country develop nuclear weapons?

There are many countries capable of producing nuclear weapons, or at least enriching uranium or manufacturing plutonium. Among the most notable are Canada, Germany, and Australia. Following the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement some consider Iran a nuclear threshold state.

Why is it so hard for countries to make nuclear weapons?

Making the weapon itself is fairly difficult. A radioactive material with certain characteristics (eg. Plutonium) has to be procured in some relatively large amount. This is very expensive due to scarcity of those materials.

How does nuclear explosion kill you?

Whole body doses cause damage to epithelial cells lining the gastrointestinal tract and this combined with the bone marrow damage is fatal. All symptoms become increasingly severe, causing exhaustion and emaciation in a few days and death within 7–14 days from loss of water and electrolytes.

Which country have weapons most?

Russia
Russia has the most nuclear weapons followed by the US. While the official number of nuclear weapons tend to be a state secret, the FAS estimates that Russia has 6,372. This is closely followed by the US, which has an estimated 5,800.

Is it fair for other countries not to have nuclear weapons?

That is not fair because no countries have the right to dictate to other countries that don’t have nuclear weapons. It is not fair for the countries that don’t possess nuclear weapons. The rich countries like the United States or Russia can not dictate to the countries that don’t have the weapons.

Why does the US want to keep nukes?

However the Netherlands could suffer because of this. Nukes give countries unfit to handle nuclear weapons too much power, and the only reason the united states wants to keep their nuclear bombs and get rid of all other countries’ nuclear bombs is because they want to be the most powerful country in the world again, as they once were.

Why do we need a nuclear weapons free world?

Deterrence and mutually-assured destruction have become outdated concepts in a world now more concerned with other questions and challenges, including widespread poverty, climate change, a worldwide economic and financial meltdown, and other threats such as the recent alarm over the pandemic outbreak of a new kind of influenza virus.

How many countries in the world have nuclear weapons?

In the world today, nine major countries currently possess nuclear weapons. Here is the list of all nine countries with nuclear weapons in descending order, starting with the country that has the most nuclear weapons at hand and ending with the country that has the least amount of nuclear weapons: