Mini-nukes and the international community
Azad Miah, Oldham, UK
The shock, the heat and the mushroom-cloud of death isn't the only destructive part of a nuclear bomb. The radiation released by a nuclear bomb poisons everything for decades. You can't grow any plant, can't farm that land and can't build houses and live nearby. In fact, the radiation contaminates pretty much everything you need for survival. And here we have the US spending billions of dollars developing these new mini-nukes and not a single country is saying anything. Why this big silence? If these countries believe that the US will think twice before using nukes against them, they should check history. Billions of dollars are not being spent to make these mini-nukes for celebrating a little girl's birthday. They are being developed to rule the world and shut up anyone that makes noise without getting permission from Washington. These weapons will be used in our backyards and this dying planet will be poisoned even more -- as if it hasn't been poisoned enough by testing of hundreds of nuclear bombs, the use of depleted uranium and many other poisonous weapons. Shouldn't the international community address this important issue which will start a very dangerous mini-nuke arms race all over the world? When the US develops these, do you think Russia, China and other countries will just sit back? And even if these countries don't react, the main question still remains: if the US is spending billions to develop these weapons of mass destruction, what gives it the right to bomb and invade other countries for allegedly developing the same thing?
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