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How does it make you feel to know that most of the nuclear weapons in the Soviet and US arsenals remain ready for use even in the post-Cold War era?
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∙ 8y ago
Actually this is false most of the Cold War era nuclear weapons have been destroyed.
- At the peak of the Cold War the U.S. had about 10,000 strategic and 20,000 tactical nuclear weapons and the USSR had about 10,000 strategic and 30,000 tactical nuclear weapons.
- Following the signing of START both sides agreed to destroy all tactical nuclear weapons and reduce strategic nuclear weapons slowly over a period of time.
- At this time both the U.S. and Russia have about 3,500 strategic nuclear weapons each and no tactical nuclear weapons (although some people say that Russia secretly maintains about 1,000 tactical nuclear weapons).
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Why should there be no nuclear weapons?
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came within a hair's breadth of agreeing to phase out their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. General Zhu Chenghu of China's National Defense University, made some remarks that stirred an unusual uproar in the West and in the United States in particular. According to reports in the Western media, Gen. Zhu, in responding to questions in a briefing session on China's foreign and security policy with a delegation of foreign journalists based in Hong Kong, seemed to indicate that in a possible military conflict with the United States over Taiwan, Beijing would be no match for the United States in terms of conventional capability. Zhu thus suggested that China should perhaps be the first to use nuclear weapons to deter a possible U.S. intervention. Today, the United States is the only nuclear power that continues to deploy nuclear weapons outside its own territory. The approximately 480 nuclear bombs in Europe are intended for use in accordance with NATO nuclear strike plans, the report asserts, against targets in Russia or countries in the Middle East such as Iran and Syria. Israel has not confirmed that it has nuclear weapons and officially maintains that it will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. Yet the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is a "public secret" by now due to the declassification of large numbers of formerly highly classified US government documents which show that the United States by 1975 was convinced that Israel had nuclear weapons But as the questions says, there should no be nuclear weapons.
Whose nuclear weapons are stronger - the US or Russia?
Let's hope we never find out. The Soviet Union was shown not to have as many weapons as they boasted after the fall of communism. It is reasonable to assume the current weapons stocks of Russia are not as deep as those of the United States, who pours money into such things.Tests on nuclear weapons have been banned for some time now both below, and above ground. So there's not much room for improvement in terms of making a more potent bomb or warhead.
What is an nuclear bomb?
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter; a modern thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than a thousand kilograms can produce an explosion comparable to the detonation of more than a billion kilograms of conventional high explosive.[1]Thus, even single small nuclear devices no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire and radiation. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control has been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut.In the history of warfare, only two nuclear weapons have been detonated offensively, both near the end of World War II. The first was detonated on the morning of 6 August 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The second was detonated three days later when the United States dropped a plutonium implosion-type device code-named "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. These bombings resulted in the immediate deaths of around 120,000 people (mostly civilians) from injuries sustained from the explosion and acute radiation sickness, and even more deaths from long-term effects of ionizing radiation. The use of these weapons was and remains controversial.Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, nuclear weapons have been detonated on over two thousand occasions for testing purposes and demonstration purposes. A few states have possessed such weapons or are suspected of seeking them. The only countries known to have detonated nuclear weapons-and that acknowledge possessing such weapons-are (chronologically) the United States, the Soviet Union (succeeded as a nuclear power by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Israel is also widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, though it does not acknowledge having them.[2]
What event caused many Americans to woory about nuclear power?
what event caused many Americans to worry about nuclear power
When was nuclear power first used?
It was first used in Obninsk in former Soviet Union.The world's first nuclear power plant was commissioned on June 27, 1954 in Obninsk.The Obninsk nuclear power plant featured one 5 mWt AM-1 (Atom Mirny or Peaceful Atom) reactor to generate electricity and facilitate experimental nuclear research.
What caused was the of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis?
The Soviet Union had begun to install nuclear weapons in Cuba.
What did the United states and Soviet Union agree to do in START?
Reduce Nuclear Weapons, people! I HAVE FURY!
Did Kazakhstan inherit nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union?
Yes
Why did the Soviet install offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba?
Because the US already had offensive nuclear weapons in Turkey. They saw it as "balancing" things.
Who ended us nuclear weapons monopoly and when?
Soviet Union 1949
What did the US and the Soviet Union agree to start?
Reduce nuclear weapons
What did the soviet union and US agree to do in start?
Reduce nuclear weapons
What did the US in the Soviet Union agreed to do in START?
Reduce nuclear weapons
What was the the importance of the salt 1 treaty of 1972?
It marked the first attempt to restrict US and Soviet nuclear weapons.The SALT-1 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty stopped the growth in US/Soviet intercontinental-range nuclear weapons arsenals. It was signed at Moscow May 26, 1972. It was approved by U.S. President September 30, 1972. The leaders were U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
What is proliferation of nuclear weapons?
Proliferation of nuclear weapons refers to the spread of nuclear weapons amongst different countries. First the U.S. had a nuclear bomb; then the Soviet Union had a nuclear bomb, followed by other countries such as the United Kingdom, France, China, India, and so on.
What former Soviet Union state has the most nuclear weapons?
Russia, of course.
What agreement was signed to limit the US and Soviet's nuclear weapons?
SALT was first
