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“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age”


Автор: Казакова Екатерина Сергеевна
Должность: учитель английского языка
Учебное заведение: МАОУ "Школа №118 с углубленным изучением отдельных предметов"
Населённый пункт: Нижний Новгород
Наименование материала: Статья
Тема: “Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age”
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“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age”.

It’s common knowledge that nuclear weapons are the most dangerous threat to the human

society. Nuclear weapons effects are so massive that millions of innocent people have been

instantly killed during World War 2 in Japan, for example. Scientists have been debating for a

long time about the pros and cons of nuclear weapons. Some say they are essential for a

country’s defense, but some still think they are a major threat to the human race and lobby the

laws to cut nuclear arsenals down.

On the one hand, many countries want to increase their influence in the world and that is why

they try to keep their nuclear arsenal. Moreover, it is difficult to find information about a

country's nuclear arms: there are several countries which are unwilling to provide information

about how many nuclear weapons they have, for example, Pakistan, Israel and India. And there

are some countries which don’t want to ratify the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear

Weapons. Thus, the threat of a nuclear war still exists, since these countries do not want to

cooperate with the international community.

On the other hand, the goal of any arms treaty is quite clear-cut: they cry for the reduction of

weapons. And some counties understand it. The only country to have used nuclear weapons was

the United States of America. The US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japanese cities of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the world witnessed the power of the man-made nuclear

weapons. Many countries fear the irreversible consequences of the use of nuclear weapons und

they offer solutions to this threat, which is a total elimination of nuclear arms. The government

knows that it is technologically possible to eliminate the functionality of all the world's nuclear

weapons in a few months’ time. The process is quick and rather simple. But some countries

severely oppose it.

To conclude, I should say that peace is achievable only by means of total abolition of aggression

and wars, but the most essential condition is the desire to achieve peace.So, countries must use

all means to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Smelova, 404 “B”



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