Dow’s Expansion into Nuclear Weapons and the Aftermath

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Today, the introduction of nuclear weapons after World War II is self contradiction and widely believed to make the world safer. Late scholar Kenenth Waltz believed that the proliferation of nuclear weapons had a deterrent effect and thus created the term "peace of the nuclear", so it only increased stability. So far, the evaluation of Kenneth Waltz and supporters of nuclear deterrence is correct. Conventional wars between countries have been superseded by surrogate war as a result of mainly nuclear forces fighting each other. Discussion on nuclear deterrence theory is based on the idea that the world leaders are rational and hence will not introduce nuclear weapons against other nuclear power. So far, this is all. However, this discussion ignores two crucial possibilities, misguided estimates and irrational leaders.

Because nuclear weapons are the most powerful weapons ever designed by human beings, nuclear military strength can greatly expand the country in terms of national power. At the same time, nuclear weapons are indiscriminate means of destruction, so especially if an enemy has such weapons, they can not provide the military power available to the country. This is the situation that was formed after the US and the Soviet Union became nuclear powers in the late 1940s. Furthermore, as the two countries expanded nuclear weapons in the 1950s their nuclear power has become mutually vulnerable. By the early 1960 's, the two superpowers had achieved a large and satisfactory arsenal, so there were conditions of mutual destruction assurance (MAD). But both may fail

Can we use such weapons to deal with nuclear weapons, whether nuclear weapon states, small or intermediate? This is clearly impossible. So far, nuclear weapons have been used in war is nuclear power with only a small number of weapons (USA) against non-nuclear power (Japan). As far as the main nuclear weapon states are concerned, it seems unlikely that countries with large traditional troops are worthy of using nuclear weapons today. But what about more vulnerable countries and smaller countries? For example, people may be concerned about the war between Israel and its neighboring countries, or the war with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The problem that needs attention here is that for these countries the nonhara outbound may not know that it might be outlining the country that owns the bomb. Again, these 'asymmetries' can increase the possibility of misunderstanding.