Nuclear Weapons Fact
The atomic bomb killed more than 166,000 people in Hiroshima alone. The number of active nuclear weapons present on earth is enough to wipe off the entire human race. As per latest reports there are more than 67,500 nuclear bombs present on this planet. Since 1945, more than 4,680 nuclear bombers have been built. Alone in the Pacific the US has done more than 106 nuclear tests. More than 95% of all the nuclear weapons are in the control of the US and Russia.
The top 10 nuclear weapon countries in the world are; the US, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, India, North Korea, Israel, and the NATO countries (Germany, Belgium, Canada, Greece, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey)
An average US nuclear bomb today is 10 times stronger than the nuclear bombs which were used to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
As per reports the US has tested more than 2000 nuclear bombs, the Soviet Union has tested 715 bombs, France has tested 210 bombs and Britain has done 45 tests. If we look at the total figures, since 1945 more than 2500 nuclear bombs have been tested on our home planet.
At present there are more than 47,000 active bombs in the world which are enough to wipe out the entire human civilization. As long as nuclear weapons are kept active, human beings are endangered species. According to the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) which was signed between Russia and US, both these countries have to lessen their deployed nuclear weapons between 1,700 to 2,200 by December 2012. On 31st December 2012, this treaty was suppose to expire and many security experts believe that both these countries will again redeploy as many nuclear warheads as they want against each other.
The pros and cons of these bombs has been a topic of discussion in many international summits and meetings. Elimination of nuclear bombs is practically impossible, still various efforts have been laid by various human support groups and various states of the top 10 military powers of the world to accomplish this dream.
We the delegates of URI annual youth camp 2013 (South India Zone) exhort all enlightened leaders of the world to:
1) Refrain from the use of all forms of nuclear weapons
2) Subscribe to NPT
3) Support CTBT
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