IAC-Council-Nuke

ASIPSS                   
Center For
NonProliferation

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons are one of the most massive destruction and dangerous weapons on earth. This destructive device designs to release energy explosively in a short period which potentially can destroy a whole city, including millions and natural environment. Scientifically, nuclear weapons are created to cause the jeopardy through an explosion, like conventional weapons. In conventional weapons, the explosion is formed by a chemical reaction which relates to rearrangement of an atom to reform. However, in nuclear weapons, the explosion is created by the atoms itself. Also, there are two main types of nuclear weapons; fission bombs and fusion bombs. The first process, fission weapons are commonly referred to atomic bombs, results from the splitting of the heavy elements such as uranium or plutonium. Fusion weapons are also referred to thermonuclear bombs or hydrogen bombs whose results from an uncontrolled reaction between isotopes of hydrogen and helium.

According to history, nuclear weapons have only been used twice in the warfare, both times by the United States against Japan in 1945 during the World War II. Since the atomic bombing of Japan, nuclear weapons have been tasted and denotated over two thousand times. The only countries are known to have detonated the United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea.The United Nations has sought to eliminate these destructive weapons since its establishment. In 1998, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs was created upon the recommendation of the General Assembly. UNODA has been promoting Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, strengthening of the disarmament regimes, and disarmament effort in the area of conventional weapons. Disarmament is the best protection against these massive destructions. However, achieving this goal has been tremendously difficult for every party.