Nuclear Arms
The United States in World War II created nuclear weapons in a secret wartime project. The U.S. spent over $2 billion dollars in 1945 on the project in fear that the Germans might succeed in creating a similar weapon. However the German's did not seriously pursue the development of the nuclear weapons during World War II. Four years after the United States exploded the first atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima, the Soviet Union tested their own. With this the nuclear arms race began.The U.S. succeeded in conducting the first test explosion of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico. With authorisation from President Harry Truman, the U.S. military dropped the first nuclear weapon over the Japanese City of Hiroshima and a second nuclear weapon was dropped over Nagasaki three days later on August 9, 1945. There is no accurate account of how many persons died in the atomic bombings of the two Japanese cities. However, it is generally acknowledged that some 90,000-100,000 persons died immediately in Hiroshima and some 35,000-40,000 died immediately in Nagasaki. By the end of 1945, some 140,000 persons in Hiroshima had die
There are at present five declared nuclear weapons states U.S., UK, France, Russia, and China. In addition, there are three so-called threshold nuclear states that are thought to possess nuclear weapons arsenals Israel, India, and Pakistan. South Africa developed a small nuclear arsenal, but chose to dismantle it. Japan has sufficient plutonium, seemingly for its nuclear industry, to become a major nuclear weapons power practically overnight. Other states known to be interested in becoming nuclear weapons states include North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Libya. The nuclear arms race between the U.S. and former USSR ended with the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s. Since then, steps have been taken to dismantle many nuclear weapons. However, there are still some 35,000 nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the nuclear weapons states. The U.S. and Russia have agreed under the terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement (START II), to reduce the number of their strategic weapons to some 3000 to 3500 each by the year 2003. Given the destructive potential of these weapons, many critics believe that this co
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