Blog 27 Maybe wrote a bit much...

The quotes I originally picked were not sufficient for my purposes since I had to limit the scope of my modern day argument significantly. I will no longer be able to include examples about gunpowder or internet issues. Thank you to anyone who suggested that, they are good ideas but I found more information about nuclear technology and its issues, and chose to stick with it. As a result, I found a new article which caters more towards my needs.

Babst, Dean, and David Krieger. “Consequences of Using Nuclear Weapons.”  Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 1997. 1 February 2011.  www.wagingpeace.org/articles/1997/00/00_babst_consequences.php.

Nuclear technology has gotten out of control. This excerpt from an article by Dean Babst and David Krieger called “Consequences of Using Nuclear Weapons,” helps to prove my point.

The United States has a total nuclear weapons destructive force of 1,800 megatons, which is an ability to destroy humanity 18 times. While struggling mightily to reduce deficit spending, the U.S. is spending some $27 billion annually to maintain far more strategic nuclear warheads (7,250) than it can use without destroying itself.(16)

The United States itself has enough nuclear weapons to cause a nuclear holocaust 18 times over. One would think that as soon as a country could destroy the world twice at the most, it would stop wasting its money accomplishing nothing but making nuclear warheads more accessible to terrorists, yet Russia has done the same thing. It’s as if they believe having more nukes will make their enemies “more dead.” The money being wasted to maintain these excessive amounts of nuclear warheads could be used for more helpful things and can be looked at in the same light as Alpha in relation to Dollhouse.
            Dollhouse was created to help people enjoy themselves and better their lives. Unfortunately, a doll named Alpha went crazy and killed people then caused many problems for Dollhouse. So was the technology of splitting an atom. It was supposed to be used for benevolent things like producing cheap limitless energy and making many lives easier and happier. Unfortunately an “Alpha” developed and went out of control. Instead of plutonium being used to build better lives, it has been used to build weapons of mass destruction to hold the threat of the end of the world over our heads and throw our country into debt.