Nuclear+Proliferation

Nuclear Proliferation  Opener 2 on Figure 2 Choices Video Clips Notes Key Terms NUKEMAP Evaluation(1/27/14): The city that I had chosen to be bombed was Washington DC, USA. The bomb that was being used to be detonated on this city was the W-59(Minuteman I warhead) which yields 1000 kilotons. The bomb was being detonated via an airburst. The estimated fatalities due to the detonation of the warhead was 525,270 people and the estimated amount of people who got injured was 925,750 people. I don't believe it would be worth it to drop a warhead like the W-59(Minuteman I warhead) because the economic effects that it has on wherever it gets dropped on would be substancial and unjustifiable. The fallot had reached all the way to New York, and the bomb itself impacted into Virginia and a little into Maryland. The amount of fatalities and the amount of people who were injured would just add to the idea to the unjustifiability of dropping a warhead that yields 1000 kilotons. Also the devastation brought upon that area due to the number of fatalities which could break families apart would be unimaginable, revealing the reasoning as to why dropping warheads are unjustifiable and should never be considered to be done. Global Weapons Inventory
 * Essential Questions: **
 * **Who determines who gets to have WMD’s and who doesn't get to have them?**
 * **Nuclear deterrents: Do the ends justify the means?**
 * **Is it possible to un-invent any object deemed too dangerous to exist?**
 * **Is the UN too weak? Too powerful?**
 * **What options are available to non-aligned countries to defend themselves from superpowers? **