Nuclear Independence Day
July 16th, 1945 the first A-bomb was discover until today, unclear weapon
are
playing a major part of the 20th century’s most reliable military
defense
system. Throughout the past five decades or so, many strong military
nations
like United State, Soviet Union (USSR), China, France, England . . .
seems very
interesting to invest nuclear weapon than any other military
weapon. It seems
like a country without nuclear weapon wills no longer
deserves the title of
Great Power! A country is defenseless without
nuclear protection. Over the last
50 years, nuclear weapons were
developed that dwarfed the 1945 bombs in
destructiveness, and major military
powers stocked their arsenals with these
arms. Every year the world spends
3,500 trillion dollars to restock their
nuclear weapon power. Every year the
world spends half trillion dollar to
protect the weapon from unnecessarily
exploration and stolen . . . From
1992-1996 total of 79 nuclear emergency
research was recalled to NEST (Nuclear
Emergency Search Team) for help.
Term like "Broken Arrow", "Red Six" and
" Landlord Access Red" are
becoming the most common nuclear weapon warning
recall used in NEST and NASA
. . . The explosive power of a nuclear weapon comes
from nuclear fission or
nuclear fusion, or both--in the case of the HYDROGEN
BOMB. A typical
small nuclear weapon has the explosive yield of tens of
thousands of tons
(kilotons) of the conventional explosive TNT; a large nuclear
weapon might
have the yield of a million tons (megatons) of TNT or more. A
single nuclear
weapon can kill hundreds of thousands of people, and when carried
on a
ballistic missile, can travel intercontinental distances in less than half
an
hour. The deployment of tens of thousands of these weapons, primarily by
the
United States and the Soviet Union, has threatened annihilation with
little or
no warning. The devastating effects of nuclear weapons, however,
may actually
have deterred their use. Strategic (long-range) nuclear weapons
include
land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs),
submarine-launched
ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and the bombs and cruise
missiles carried on
long-range bombers. Many strategic ballistic missiles
carry multiple warheads,
called MIRVed missiles. Tactical nuclear weapons are
shorter-range weapons
allocated for regional use or for use in support of
battlefield operations.
France, Great Britain, and China each have small
but significant nuclear
arsenals, which include both strategic and tactical
nuclear weapons. Israel is
reported to have about 100 nuclear weapons. Other
countries--India, South
Africa, and Pakistan-- have the capability to
make nuclear weapons. Iraq, Iran,
and North Korea reportedly have made
efforts to develop nuclear weapons. ..
During the end of World War II, in
November 1945 President Harry S. Truman
decided to allow the bombs to be
dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because, he
said, he believed they might
save thousands of American lives. For maximum
psychological impact, they were
used in quick succession, one over Hiroshima on
August 6, and the other
over Nagasaki on August 9. These cities had not
previously been bombed, and
thus the bombs' damage could be accurately assessed.
U.S. estimates put
the number killed in Hiroshima at 66,000 to 78,000 and in
Nagasaki at
49,000. Japanese estimates gave a combined total of 240,000. In
1960
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev launched plans to supply Cuba with
medium- and
intermediate-range ballistic missiles that would put the eastern
United States
within range of nuclear missile attack. Khrushchev mistakenly
assumed that the
United States would take no action and when questioned
denied that any missiles
were being supplied to Cuba. By the summer of 1962,
U.S. spy planes flying over
Cuba had photographed Soviet-managed
construction work and spotted the first
ballistic missile on October 14. U.S.
president John F. Kennedy consulted
secretly with advisers, discussing
options: invasion, air strikes, a blockade,
or diplomacy. On October 22,
Kennedy announced a naval blockade to prevent the
arrival of more missiles.
He demanded that the USSR dismantle and remove the
weapons and declared a
quarantine zone around Cuba, within which U.S. naval
forces would intercept
and inspect ships to determine whether they were carrying
weapons. The United
States was supported by other members of the Organization of
American
States. For several tense days Soviet vessels en route to Cuba avoided
the
quarantine zone, and Khrushchev and Kennedy communicated through
diplomatic
channels. Khrushchev wavered in his position, sending a message on
October 26 in
which he agreed to Kennedy's demands to remove all missiles,
and then the
following day he tried to negotiate other terms. Kennedy
responded to the first
communication, and on October 28, Khrushchev agreed to
dismantle and remove the
weapons from Cuba and offered the United States
on-site inspection in return for
a guarantee not to invade Cuba. Kennedy
accepted and halted the blockade. Cuba,
angry at Soviet submission, refused
to permit the promised inspection, but U.S.
aerial reconnaissance revealed
that the missile bases were being disassembled.
The apparent capitulation
of the USSR in the standoff was instrumental in
Khrushchev's being
deposed in 1964. In 1987 the INF (Intermediate Range Nuclear
Forces
Treaty) eliminated all U.S. and Soviet land-based missiles with
ranges
between 500 and 5,500 km (300 and 3,400 mi.) to prevent another
Nuclear World
War. At the beginning of the 1990s the United States and
the USSR had a total of
about 50,000 nuclear warheads, about half of them
strategic and half-tactical.
The breakup of the Soviet Union, as well as
the START (Strategic Arms Reduction
Talks) Treaty and later agreements,
are expected to result in a reduction to
about 1500 strategic nuclear
warheads each for the U.S. and Russia by the turn
of the century. Comparable
reductions in tactical nuclear warheads are also
likely. It’s been a long
time since the nuclear limitation started. Yet during
those years, nuclear
weapons weren’t used against human targets under any
publications. But, how
do we know if the world has learned to live in the shadow
of these powerful
weapons? Never the less, our country still have 25,000 nuclear
warhead lining
around the global, If the world is living in fear and hoping for
peace, where
did our 3,500 trillions taxes money go? What does our military plan
to do
with those nuclear weapons, Protection or Injection? What weapon did
our
country used in Gulf War, in Vietnam War, or in Korea War. . .? And how
do you
know, were you there or you were just listening? Even though high
amount of
Nuclear weapons was reduced, our world is still in the hand of
danger, by the
end of the 20th century; our global will have enough nuclear
warhead to destroy
Earth 30 times. Can our country or any other countries
promise worldwide peace
forever or just for now? Put yourself in the position
of world leadership in
today’s world, what would you do to become a worldwide
domination, use
evil-human force or evil-human weapon? All those question are
unanswerable, none
can tell you the truth because none knows the truth.
However, one fact still
remained the same, one fact that can no longer be
forgotten, one fact that
can’t be erased; is we used nuclear weapons to save
thousand of American’s
lives, but killed millions of other people’s lives.
One word from the
president caused the death of thousands of indecent
upcoming generation. How can
you be so sure that you will not be the next
VICTIUM? Can you promise yourself
that there will be no World War III, no
nuclear explosion, no nuclear leak or no
nuclear researches? If you can’t
tell yourself all the answer is NO. Then you
might need to refresh your
brain! What can you do if one day the president of
certain country wake up
and he decided to lunch nuclear strike? Probably
nothing! By that time, you
certainly will wish that you did something to prevent
this happening, but you
didn’t and that might just be the penalty. In less
than another 2 years, the
new millennium will come. People from the global will
join another to lunch
the largest battlefield of mankind! MANKIND, That word
should have a new
meaning for all of us, we can’t be consuming by our petty
litter differences
anymore, and we will be united by our common interest. Maybe
its faith that
today is The 4th of July and we will once again fighting for our
freedom, for
our dilation. We are fighting for our rights to live, to live in
peace.
Shouldn’t we win today? The 4th of July should no longer remember as
an
America holiday, but it’s the day that the world declare in one voice
that we
will not go to quietly into the night, we will not finish without a
fight, we
going to live on, we going to survive. Today we celebrate our
Independence Day,
we celebrate our freedom from nuclear distraction!