Nuclear threat, justification and power-The Ireniusian Version

Nuclear threat, justification and poweraggression are based on unscrupululous lies and
The Ireniusian Versiongreed. As a matter of mentioning, how many
The total number of people purpoted to haverepressive regimes worldwide are disserminating
been destroyed in the Nagasaki/Hiroshima nuclearlies to citizens in the quest of remaining in power,
bombing in Japan have been put at aroundat the disadvantage of the innocent citizen. It is
seventy thousand. A generation eliminated fromjust a matter of power and lies. Any nation has
the face of the earth in a matter of seconds.its own justifications for any action it takes.
What a significant loss of lives!Let their souls restHowever, by virtually destroying Iraq because of
in peace.a dislike of a single individual, the USA has
The effects of the nuclear bombing are stillunleashed a hatred against itself that did not exist
witnessed although such events took place almostuntil this sadistic assault.The US went up to attack
fifty years ago, children born blind, crippled andIraq even although there was some kind of a
deaf.reluctance on the part of the United Nations,
Such have been forms of aggression in the questleading interested parties wordwide to question
of power. It is not that the USA has to bethe credibility and impartiality of the world body in
blamed for such a bombing, for there are claimssolving international crisis if its decisions are often
this was an act of a retaliation stemming fromoveruled by the United States of America.
the Pearl Harbour bombing in the Pacific Ocean.Nuclear power activity in Iran and North Korea
Although the United States can be blamed forhas also caused quite a stir and is still under the
such an act, one should also take intospotlight of the United Nations and the United
consideration that the nuclear bombing is notStates. However, Iran strongly points out that its
probably the last.a power generation endeavour. The extent to
The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 when the USwhich this is true, also, somebody somewhere
tested their first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo,knows.
New Mexico. A few years later, in 1953, PresidentBut the fact still remains, that nuclear installations,
Eisenhower launched his "Atoms for Peace"whether military or civil, have a sad record of
Programme at the United Nations amid a wave ofaccidents and incidents, shrouded in cover-ups, lies
unbridled atomic optimism.and misinformation.The generation of electricity in
During and after the Cold War, the USSR had annuclear reactors produces substances than can be
incentivised programme on developing destructiveused for the fabrication of nuclear weapons.The
nuclear weapons. Such a programme resulted indangers associated with the handling of
several physics proffessionals around the countryweapons-useable nuclear substances require a high
making an attempt towards developinglevel of security and secrecy even in democratic
destructive nuclear weapons. This was acountries.Moreover, nuclear energy has never
countrywide phenomena that did not even takebeen economic, despite the massive state
into cognisance the effects of such an incentivisedsubsidies it has received for decades. Even now
programme. Russia is still haunted by suchfunding still pours into the nuclear sector at the
communist ignorance and its children will continueexpense of renewable resources like solar or wind
to suffer evil perpetrated by its fathers.energy.
Thousands of nuclear weapons are floating aboutHaving said that, I therefore sorely believe no
the former Soviet Union and perhaps hundredsnation has the sole right to initiate nuclear
are unaccounted for. Radiation released into theprogrammes because events worldwide are quite
environment has led to the contamination of soil,unpredictable. The United States or any other
air, rivers and oceans; causing cancer and otherdeveloped nation has no right to implement such
diseases in people.nuclear programmes. Who could have imagined
The use of nuclear power has never beenthe destructive effects of the September 11
"peaceful". "Inherently safe" reactors are a myth.attacks when the United States had the world
An accident can occur in any nuclear reactor,believe its homeland was secure against foreign
causing the release of large quantities of deadlyterrorists? Nuclear weapons will still fall in the
fission products into the environment.Even duringhands of the terrorists because potential terror
normal operation, radioactive materials areknows no boundaries. Even in the United States,
regularly discharged into the air and water. One ofthere are terrorists since there are groups that
the biggest problems facing the nuclear industry isare starkly against the Bush Administration.
what to do with the radioactive waste generatedTerrorist organisations are everywhere. What can
in a nuclear reactor. Large quantities of low andstop nuclear weapons in the United States to fall
intermediate level wastes in liquid or solid formin the hands of terrorist organisations in the United
require a disposal route, and the highly radioactiveStates. Homework for the Bush Administration.
spent fuel rods have to be isolated from theDeveloping countries however must also take a
biosphere for hundreds of thousands, sometimesreasonable position. The United States' attempts
millions of years.When a nuclear reactor is shuthave met a mute or supportive response from
down, many of its component parts havemost developing countries or other nations that
become radioactive. They have to be treated asare against the United States. Some countries
nuclear waste.The process of dealing with theeven rejoiced when the USA undewent the
power station at this point is calledSeptember 11 bombings. What every nation
"decommissioning". Over 400 reactors and manyneeds to take into cognisance is everybody is
other nuclear installations worldwide have to bevulnerable to terrorist attacks. Worse, developing
decommissioned over the next few decades, andnations. Bush is playing a major role towards
there is not much technical expertise in this field.eliminating terrorist activity but I do not support
Vast sums of money will have to be spent onany nation, developed or developing, that makes
nuclear waste disposal, decommissioning, nuclearan attempt towards playing with the nuclear fire.
transports and the clean-up after radioactiveThe nuclear threat moves in parallel to the AIDS
accidents.pandemic. Whatever led to the existence of the
The planet is left with the legacy of nuclearpandemic, the whole world will live to know of the
waste, which will be radioactive for tens orcosequenses of unscrupulous adventures by
hundreds of thousands of years. As yet, no safecertain individuals in the quest for initiating misery
solution for its disposal exists anywhere in theon vulnerable groups. Our planet Earth will always
world.be haunted and everyperson would be affected in
The United States had an opportunity to purchaseone way or another. Believe me. We are all people
or otherwise control these weapons after the falldespite the level of development in various
of the Soviet Union but typical U.S. governmentcountries and everybody is liable to mistakes. It
incompetence prevented help towards thwarting adoes not matter who you are, as long as you are
looming nuclear threat. It is still not too late toa person.
work with Russia and other nuclear powers toNations of our Planet Earth, stop playing with fire!!!!
make the world a safer place, although I feelFeel free to provide feedback e-mail
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As such, there has been a massive debate overOccupation: university student
nuclear power world wide.I am Irenius Mhemba, a Zimbabwean by birth and
After all is said and done, is there any single nationcurrently at the University of Zimbabwe, doing
worldwide that has the sole right to initiate nuclearBanking and Finance.
programmes? Does the United States, Britain andBorn in 1980 in a family of eight, I have always
other superpowers have the erxclusive right tobeen in Zimbabwe but have hopes of studying
mobilise such potentially destructive progerammes,overseas for my postgraduate.
claiming that they implement enough controlI am single.
measures? Is it a matter of developed nationsI have always taken interest in writing, whether it
preventing other countries from launching nuclearbe essays, short stories, poems and I have got
programmes, claiming such programmes would beplans to write a mystery novel before the end of
capitalised by terrorist organisations?2006.
A couple of years ago, the United StatesAlthough I am doing Banking and Finance, I also
descended upon Saddam Hussein with an alarminghave got interests in films. Its my sheer hope
alacrity that one cannot discern, claiming he was athat I am gonna be a movie director one of
potential threat to world peace since he wasthese years. Life is a diverse component that
believed to be initiating and mobilising nuclearseeks pleasure in creativity.
weapon programmes. Whether these allegationsI like eating sadza (local staple diet) and properly
are true, somebody somewhere knows but Icooked vegetables.
have this sentiment that most forms of