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Kipp King Collegiate

The weapon that can kill them all

Ariel Zepeda

American Government

Mr.Segado

27 February 2018
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Table of contents

Abstract​………………………………………………………………………………………………….2

Problem statement​……………………………………………………………………………………..3

Literature review​………………………………………………………………………………………..5

Discussion of Findings​………………………………………………………………...……………..11

Conclusion​………………………………………………………...…………………………………..13

Work Cited​……………………………………………………………………………………………..14
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The US role in promoting non-proliferation among countries with nuclear weapons is that the United

States makes sure that all nine countries with the possession with a nuclear warhead should not use it.

Currently throughout our countries, many have created weapons that can exterminate a large group of

people in just seconds. Only nine countries have been successful in making these weapons but other

countries are trying to develop this weapon of mass destruction. If the United states keeps their end of the

non-proliferation treaty then none of the other countries will try and declare nuclear war against other

countries with nukes. Our current president Donald Trump wants to do the opposite of what previous

presidents about denuclearization and want to build more nukes. With the increase amount of nukes being

built by President Donald Trump it will be seen as a preparation for war. President Trump wants to build

nukes that can be easier to use my the military because he is worried about these other countries making

nuclear weapons. While building more nukes it sends out a red flag because the United States signed a

non-proliferation treaty that prevents the countries that possess these weapons to not use them or built

them.

The Reason why I chose to research Weapons Of Mass Destruction was because not that many

people are informed about nuclear activity that goes on in our countries. In my specific issue of my

research paper is that how is the United States responsible for making sure countries that have possession

of a nuclear weapons does not use them on other countries. A current problems is that our President

Donald Trump is creating nukes that can be easier to use on other countries. My Purpose of this study is

to inform the reader what are current problems about what the non-proliferation treaty is and how the

united states is handling it.

In the treaty on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons nine countries signed a treaty that they will

not use nuclear weapons against each other or any other countries in an active war. The main

topic of this article is the whole nuclear non proliferation treaty and the nine countries that have

possession of these weapons, signed a treaty to never use them or sell them to any other country
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that hasn't developed the weapon. It also has all the articles of the nuclear non proliferation treaty

in which also states what each party stands for. The key point from this article is that when this

treaty was signed which was in 1968, the treaty was not actually in force at that time until 1970.

Another key detail is that the treaty says that parties cannot develop the use of nuclear energy

without discriminating the treaty. This article was more based on how each party State wrote

their own idea on the non proliferation treaty and see if the other nine counties would agree with

them on their ideas.

The results from this article is that each State party wrote their own idea on what should

be included in the nuclear peace treaty because they are all trying to keep the peace with all nine

of the countries. The reason why this was established in the first place was that it would make

sure the countries that possessed these weapons wouldn’t use them in a war, and to prevent other

countries to develop these weapons of mass destruction. With this treaty in place we should all

not fear other countries wanting to go to nuclear war with us because it is breaking a peace treaty

and this can lead to total war. The U.S. has developed strong nuclear weapons so we should be

safe from other countries wanting to go to war with the U.S. because of how powerful this nation

has become. With the result of this treaty it has kept all our countries safe for more than 20 years

because these weapons of mass destruction are no joke, thousand of people can be killed just

within seconds of one of these missiles exploding.

In the article The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Then And Now talks about how back

in the days the treaty of nuclear non-proliferation was that countries are prohibited to transfer

nuclear weapons to another country. This treaty was signed back in 1946 after the World War,

and it was signed by nearly 190 countries. Then later on in 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower
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expanded his thoughts on the non-proliferation by saying that the treaty would control all nuclear

activities around the world. The United States wants to make sure that none of the States possess

any nuclear weapons or to control any nukes. Then came along President John F Kennedy and

his plan was to stop trade of nuclear weapons to additional countries that would want to possess

nuclear weapons and he also made ACDA which is the Arms Control And Disarmament

Agency. This Agency would support missile non-proliferation efforts and prevent the ​acquisition

of offensive ballistic missile programs by other countries. ​After the Author talks about the

non-proliferation treaty he gives his own ideas on what the President should do, like outline a

plan to strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation with the help of congress.

In this article the author gives a lot of evidence about the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

and what some presidents have done to add on their ideas to the treaty. The author gives specific

details on what the nuclear proliferation treaty is and how the present Presidents should see the

nuclear non proliferation treaty. In this article the author left out the current Presidents idea and

what the current Presidents should do with our nuclear weapons. Some people say that having

nuclear weapons is unjust and we should not have weapons that can potentially wipe out millions

or even thousands of people. If this weapon is so powerful like they state, then why does the U.S.

need to build more if the treaty does not want nuclear warfare with any countries that have

nuclear weapons. The author thinks that the Presidents should outline plans to strengthen the

nuclear non-proliferation treaty because the author believes that the nuclear non-proliferation

treaty can be strengthen a lot more than what it has been in the past. In the author's point of view

if our government were to strengthen our nuclear non proliferation treaty then nobody should be

afraid of our country or any other country would go to nuclear warfare against each other.
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In The Delegation of the United States of America to the 2010 Review Conference of the

Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons the secretary of state Hillary Clinton talks

about how President Obama was doing everything in his power to reduce the threat of nuclear

weapons and to pursue a world without these weapons and they are willing to take steps into

getting there. As one of those steps since the U.S. is a nuclear weapon state the U.S. should try to

recommit to the three pillars which is nuclear disarmament, access to civilian nuclear energy, and

nonproliferation. The only fear President Obama had was the terrorist group the Al-Qaeda, he

was afraid of that particular terrorist group getting their hands on a crude nuclear weapon device

that can potential kill thousands or even millions of people. Hillary announced that the U.S.

would submit a protocol that we would be a nuclear-weapon-free zone which has also been

establish in Africa and the South Pacific. President Obama had stated that the “United States will

retain a nuclear deterrent for as long as nuclear weapons exist, one that can protect our country

and our allies”.

With this speech Hillary stated some good ideas on how President Obama and his

administration are doing what they can on limiting nuclear weapons and trying to have a world

without them. The way President Obama sees nuclear weapons is that instead of making treaties

to not use them, he rather make a treaty to dismantle all of the nuclear weapons in the world and

keep the peace. Hilary had some good points about what they plan on doing, and some of her

idea haven't been forced or brought up anymore after that conference in 2010. Throughout her

speech she kept all her ideas in this circle that did not get off her general idea about NPT and the

steps the U.S. are taking to end all nuclear weapons little by little. Many would like to see all
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these things that Hillary was pointing out because a world without nuclear weapons is the best

idea because nations don't have to be worried about these weapons no more.

In this Article we brought out a fact sheet on what countries have nuclear weapons and

how many they have. To start it off we have Russia and they have approximately 7,300 but only

1,790 are still operational and ready to go, but the other 4,490 are awaiting to be dismantled.

Then here in the United States with 6,970 nuclear warheads and only 1,750 are still operational

and ready to go and the other 4,670 are just sitting around waiting to be dismantled. The U.S.

was the first ever to create this weapon and then later on used in WW2 in Nagasaki and

Hiroshima which had killed over hundreds of thousands of people. Next on the list we have

China with a low 260 nuclear warheads and all of them are waiting to be dismantled. In India

there isn't an actual amount but it’s between 110 to 220 and all of them are awaiting to be

dismantled. Next on the list we have Israel and they have 80 and they are all waiting to be

dismantled. Next we have France and they have 300 and 280 are still operational and only 20 are

awaiting dismantle. The one country that is still unknown is North Korea but report says there is

approximately 4 and they are all operational. Second to last we have Pakistan with around 110 to

130 and they are all waiting to be dismantled. Last but no least we have the United Kingdom

with around 215 and only 120 are still operational.

In this article it talked about how many nuclear weapons each country had that possesses

this powerful weapon. It also tells us how many are still functional and how many are ready to be

dismantled due to the NPT that is reducing the amount of nuclear weapons each country can

have. But this fact sheet also tells us which country had got rid of all their nuclear weapons

which leaves these countries vulnerable to nuclear attacks if one country was to attack others
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with their nukes. But then again the less nukes we have the better it would be just like our

previous President Obama wanted everyone to live in a world without these dangerous weapons

that would end us all. Something the author of this article leaves out is what countries can be

potential threats with and what are the U.S. intentions with possessing all these weapons.

Another question that might be asked is that the U.S. is still building these weapons of mass

Destruction and why do they need more if they are trying to get rid of them. The key detail to

take from this Article is that since the U.S. was the first to invent this weapon why don’t we have

the most of the weapons than everyone else, Russia is the one that has the most nuclear weapons

than the U.S.

This article starts off with a tweet that Donald Trump tweeted, saying how the U.S. ​"must

greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its

senses regarding nukes”. With this tweet Donald Trump wants to flip things around and change

what previous Presidents have done. Over all these past decades Presidents wanted to reduce

nuclear weapons, but Trump wants to build more and he wants it to be an arms race against all

these other countries. The reason why trump needs more nukes is because of North Korea, and

Trump wants to boost up our nukes like we once did in the late 1950s were the U.S. had over

6,000 nukes. Trump wants to spend over 1.2 trillion dollars on modernizing nukes in the U.S. ​so

that we can have an advantage with the new tech that is being developed. It also starts talking

about how the U.S. is tuning the nukes by making them lighter and have a bigger blast radius

than previous missiles.

This article mostly talked about why Trump wanted to build more weapons and why we

need to build more. His excuse is that we need to protect ourselves from North Korea and by
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doing so we need to build more nukes. We already have enough nukes just laying around that

there is no point of wasting so much money on weapons that we already have in our disposal.

North Korea only developed 4 nukes which is nothing compared to the number Russia has or the

number he had back in the late 1950s. Trump is just trying to show how tough he is by showing

he has the bigger gun.