With the future in such a state of uncertainty and political
relationships more strained than ever, there is one more silent
threat that could end up being more deadly and dangerous to
humanity than a hundred pandemics: nuclear weapons.
It’s been 75 years since the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
effectively ending World War II and killing well over 100,000
people, the majority of whom were civilians. The bombing of
Nagasaki was the second and final time a country deployed a
nuclear weapon in combat. However, it wasn’t the last nuclear
explosion, as testing of controlled explosions continued for years.
Though officially banned in 2009, the US president was recently
reported in the Washington Post to be discussing conducting the
first US nuclear test explosion since 1992. This follows the Trump
administration’s decision earlier this year to pull out of the ‘Open
Skies Arms Control’ treaty which allows the US and Russia to fly
over each other’s territory with elaborate sensor equipment to
assure that they are not preparing for military action.