Zebulon Hilyard: Nuclear Arms Development.
The Nuclear arms race, "won" by America, put an end to WWII. However
hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians were killed in the process,
so nobody really won. I have never been a big humanitarianism kind of person
but I remember how I felt on 9/11 when a couple thousand people died…my point
is nuclear arms is not something we should be working to devel.
USA and Russia still have tension between them because of a
45 year long bloodless war that was fueled by a stockpile of nuclear arms. Last
month Russia allegedly tested a brand new missile blatantly violating a 1987
treaty that helped end the Cold War, so maybe that war is not quite over yet. With
emerging market countries like Iran and North Korea possibly joining the esteemed nuclear arms club I think
enough is enough.
Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s Supreme leader, on the left and on the right a much less-hysterical looking President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
North Korea follows the “Songun”, or Military First, Policy
when making decisions regarding diplomacy. I think that is reason enough for
the people of the world to do whatever it takes to stop them from gaining
nuclear arms. I am not writing this to bash other countries because our
homeland has made mistakes of our own, I am just saying it is a scary to think
that an aggressive country with something to prove might actually have nuclear arms. I hope we never go back to using them to “protect” the world, the
less people that have them the better.
The power of these weapons is incredible. Flexing a nuclear
muscle should never be an option. I fully support the advancement of science
but this is one area where we have looked too far into it. Driven by fear of
what others might have we have created enough power to destroy our world several times.
I agree wholeheartedly that the nuclear arms race is completely unnecessary and all steps should be undertaken to rid the world of the threat of another devastation seen when we dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. Bringing up your point on 9/11, I live in Connecticut about 40 minutes from NYC. While I was only 7 and too young to remember what happened that day my mom said that was the single most horrific day of her life. She said that she could see the smoke from the burning towers traveling across the Long Island Sound to where we live. With this in mind we as a nation should stand together to prevent any innocent lives from ever being lost. I feel that what the North Koreans and Russians are doing is unacceptable and I'm thankful that you brought this issue up.
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