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America and Nuclear Non-Proliferation

2 Pages 572 Words July 2015

Most of people do not worry about nuclear arms control and nonproliferation,also,they are not showing in the news everyday,but it can causes worldwide panic like Cuban missile crisis in 1962(Hershberg). “Nuclear non-proliferation is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology,to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament(NPT)”. There are many related problems,for example,what amount of nuclear tests can a country take each year? What amount of nuclear weapons a country can have?What amount of nuclear weapons can a country have?How to clean up the nuclear waste?How to do dispositions and safe disarmaments of nuclear weapons(effect of the production)?
In the world,there are 435 nuclear reactors,and about 67,000,000 people are living near those nuclear plants.In recently reports,more than 45,000 Soviet soldier were sent to the test field for doing nuclear bomb range test in Totsk test in Orenburg,Soviet .There was no warning to the soldiers and civilians,the deaths and injuries are uncountable.During the 60 years later,more than 88,000 of people died of cancer(Ong).Russia is always being the most affected country of this issue,because Russia has the biggest nuclear weapons storage in the world.Most of the nuclear bomb were made during the Cold War(Collina).Not just Russia,there are also some new born nuclear countries,for example,Iran is in the center of the nuclear storm now.Iran insists that they have the right to have nuclear energy,but UN and other European countries are preventing Iran to have nuclear energy by negoitating(Patrikarakos). With the experience from the Cold War and more and more new nuclear countries appeared,U.S. government decided to prevent nuclear panics by creating a series of Atomic Energy Act(AEA) and International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)(Kimball).Also,UN has made the Comprehens...

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