AVERT IMPENDING NUCLEAR HOLOCAST

Nuclear weapons have been one of the ways men devised to destroy their fellow beings. Since the invention of nuclear weapons, war has become obsolete, because warfare is a means to achieve a particular end. However, in the case of nuclear holocaust, there is a risk of complete destruction (and therefore, the nations proudly announce their nuclear capabilities so that they can eschew any kind of attack from their opponents).

The nuclear arsenals mounted on bomber planes, submarines and land based missiles, in fact, have multifaceted striking capacities. They are, however, redundant as they are used hardly.  Man's search for supremacy will lead to discovery of far more superior weapons!

Current nuclear powers,  namely, USA, Russia, CineUK, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, together hold a explosive yield of 500 megatons which is about 2,00,000 times the explosive yield of the bombs used in Hiroshima.

Available official data indicates that there are 31,000 nuclear war heads with multiple yields, either deployed, or in reserve to be used in stockpiles.

A modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 1, 1000 kg produces an explosive force compared to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons of TNT. Even a small nuclear device can devastate an entire city by blast, fire and radiation. One megaton is one million times the power of 1 kiloton,

Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass murder. Destiny of humanity is uncertain.

Over the decades USA alone spent at least 8.63 trillion dollars in present day time. Global military expenditure stands at over 1.7 trillion dollars, 2.6% of world’s economy. It is shocking but true that 2.4 trillion dollars or 4.4% of the global economy is spent on military expenses. Ten military powers alone spend 1.19 trillion dollars on defence.

Military might deliver geopolitical supremacy but peace delivers economic prosperity. Imagine the price we pay to maintain uneasy peace. Why on earth humanity cannot protest against the colossal wastage of precious financial resource to destroy us? Apart from the thermonuclear weapons, there is a growing tendency to stockpile biological and chemical wagons. USA alone holds world’s 41%, followed by Russia, China and another 20 more countries.

USA is the first country to develop nuclear weapons and the only country to have used them in warfare. Japan is the victim of the world’s first atomic bomb.

Hiroshima was flattened, devastated and became a waste land where 1, 40,000 people died on impact from radiation and diseases in the ensuring years. A 12.5 kilo ton fission bomb, a merely tactical weapon by today’s standard was dropped on Hiroshima onAugst 6,1945 which transformed a city of some 3,40,00 people into hell in a space of few seconds.

The blast wave, the fire created by the thermal pulse, the deadly black rain of the mushroom cloud and the radio active fallout took a toll of 1,30,000 people who were killed instantly or died within the next  three months.

One percent of the explosive power of the nuclear arsenal if detonated in cities of sub tropical cities  it would lead to 5 million tons of smoke inthe strataspire where it will reside for many years.Aftermath of nuclear fallout have a cascading effect of global warming,  global cooling and environmental degradation. There are already taking place due to human greed.

These weapons do not serve the purpose of global security or global peace.184 nations have already made a legal undertaking neither to obtain nuclear weapons and 3 in 4 support universal ban.

Nuclear powers still consider it is their prerogative to possess these ghastly bombs. Possesing these weapons are immoral. Can we discount the possibility in a world where non-state terrorists with diabolic mental outlook possess these weapons in future?

Nuclear weapons are grave dangers no matter who posses them. Nuclear weapons do not discriminate.  If our advanced technologies were suddenly and completely destroyed how would we able to manage to survive. Everything will be destroyed several hundred times.

We are the inheritors of past and trustees of the future. Act wisely globally. Think on a larger scale. We have a special power within us to rise up against all odds and successfully emerge victories. Future is uncertain but human will to transform the uncertain into certainties distinguish man against animals.

We require developing a global consciousness instead of national consciousness. Sovereign nations have failed to reach a unanimous decision as to how can we prevent the looming danger to humanity. Concept of one world, one community and the safety of all human species and others are essential. The future of all global citizens largely depends on what we think and act to avert the dangers ahead.