blog 20

Raghuvanshi, Kulbhushaan. "Nuclear Weapons Pros and Cons." Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web. 28 Apr. 2010. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

For tonight’s blog I chose to continue the nuclear technology theme, but this time focus more on the pros and cons of nuclear weapons, not nuclear energy. In the article, the author starts out with a brief history of the usage of the nuclear bomb and some of its basic pros and cons. He then lists the facts about nuclear bombs like how they wipe out full cities, how much plutonium it takes to make a nuclear bomb, and how many countries own nuclear weapons. Then he talks about some of the pros and cons about nuclear weapons. One of the pros is that nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent, countries are afraid to start wars with nuclear powers or their allies because of the fear of the ultimate retaliation, a nuke destroying their entire country. Also, if the nuclear powers got rid of their nukes while other countries like Iran are about to get them, who will keep them from using them on whoever they want? There would be nothing stopping Iran from nuking their enemies and anyone who said anything or tried to do anything to stop them. The cons of nuclear bombs are that there are enough nukes to destroy the world many times over, nukes are immoral, and that it is extremely expensive to maintain nuclear weapons.