The Pros And Cons Of The Nuclear War

It is widely agreed that the most dangerous threat to civilization is that posed by nuclear weapons.The threat posed by nuclear weapons was apparent to all observers worldwide. The notion of M.A.D (Mutually assured destruction) was a “policy” that effectively made the act of using weapons a zero sum game in which neither side would have any incentive to deploy its nuclear arsenal. Ronald Reagan beginning in 1982 sought to reduce the threat to the world by limiting the number of nuclear weapons that both the U.S and the Soviet Union possessed. This proposal would eventually become known as the START treaty.

The goals of the START treaty were undeniably ambitious, it sought to reduce the number of nuclear weapons held by each side to no more than 6000 nuclear warheads in addition to 1600 ICBMs and bombers. This reduction from the stockpiles that both nations had would eventually lead to a reduction of more than 75% of all nuclear weapons that were in existence! The benefits of the treaty would show the world that both the

The final draft of the proposal was signed by George H.W Bush (United States of America) and Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union) on the 31st of July 1991. The proposal was made effective on the 5th of December 1994 and intended to last 18 years until the 5th of december 2009. The break up of the Soviet Union in december of 1991 posed a problem for the treaty as now one of the two member states no longer existed. Thus it was agreed that the terms of the treaty specified to the Soviet Union would be applied to Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine; The latter three of which later disbanded their nuclear weapons and became non-nuclear weapons states under the Treaty on the nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. These actions were particularly important as upon receiving independence Ukraine had the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the