Nuclear weapon and its impacts

The first world nuclear test was processed by the US on July, 16 1945. They used these nuclear weapons after three weeks against any enemy for the first time in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In August 1945, another nuclear bomb was set off above Nagasaki. Both nuclear bombs caused over 214000 deaths. The United Nations passed its first resolution calling for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction in January 1946. Still many countries went forth with research and nuclear tests.

There are at least 23,000 nuclear weapons in existence: an amount great enough to wipe out the entire human population of the planet more than once.

Nuclear weapons have many impacts on human life.

The direct and immediate effect: nuclear weapons have blast and heat effects as buildings collapse and all inflammable materials burst into flames which People inside the buildings or shielded will be more than likely killed.  Ninety percent of people will face instant death. Also, nuclear weapons produce fire storm. People in underground shelters who survive the initial heat flash will die because all the oxygen will be sucked out of the atmosphere. The International Red Cross has stated that the use of a single nuclear weapon in or near a populated area is likely to result in a humanitarian disaster that will be hard to manage.

The short term effect: Survivors are affected within a matter of days by radioactive fall-out. The effects of exposure in high levels of radioactive fall-out can lead to hair loss, bleeding from the mouth and gums, internal bleeding and hemorrhagic diarrhea, gangrenous ulcers, vomiting, fever, delirium and terminal coma.

The long term effect: nuclear weapons will directly effect on generations to come. For survivors there is a serious risk of developing cancer and the children of those surviving will have birth defects or leukemia and other various forms of cancers. Nuclear weapons cause severe damage to the climate and environment not comparable to any other type of weapon. The five million tons of smoke produced by the raging fires can cause global temperature to fall by an average of 1.3C. The unstable global climate would have an overwhelming impact on food production. The Red Cross estimates that more than a billion people around the world could face starvation as a result of nuclear wars.

sources:

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/

http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/effectsofnuclearweapons/

http://www.cnduk.org/campaigns/global-abolition/effects-of-nuclear-weapons