Nuclear Proliferation Militaire et armes

What will happen when all countries on earth possess nuclear weapon?

If every country owned nuclear weapons than I am investing in a bunker. But to be serious, I can’t ever see a scenario where every country will have nukes. They are not easy and certainly not cheap to…

Should America privatize their nuclear launch and storage facilities?

No. Definitely no. Privatized assets are basically things that are normally owned by the government but are actually owned by specific people or groups. We’ve all seen how the privatization of prisons went, with the increase in jailing…

How much further could nuclear weapons still be developed?

President Obama has proposed an extensive program for modernizing the US nuclear, spending up $1 trillion over 30 years: U.S. Nuclear Modernization Programs Most of that is being spent on infrastructure, upgrading delivery systems, command and control systems,…

Why don’t countries with huge stockpiles of unnecessary nuclear warheads (mainly US and Russia) put them to domestic use, such as producing electricity?

It is not quite that easy. 1 Weapons grade fuel is 95% enriched Uranium (or Uranium, Plutonium mix in case of nations that do not have enrichment technology). Reactor fuel varies from 2% enriched Uranium in the case…

What makes nuclear weapons different from conventional weapons?

Put simply, a neuclear weapon uses the fission and fusion of unstable atoms to release energy. A conventional bomb breaks the bonds in unstable molecules. TNT, the most common solid military explosive, is made up of trinitrotoluene molecules.…

Which country is the most likely to use its nuclear weapons excluding North Korea?

Israel — the Middle East is extremely volatile right now, and anything could happen in the next 5–10 years. Furthermore, Israel has historically viewed Iran as an existential threat since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution (indeed, Iran’s leaders have…

Will there ever be any weapon stronger than a nuclear weapon?

Rocks. Yup, big Ole honkin rocks. There is fairly compelling evidence being brought to the subject of the odd climate anomaly called The Younger Dryas period, that shows a comet, or at least debris from a near miss,…

What would happen if all nuclear weapons in the world were detonated in one location on Earth?

Depends on whether they are detonated all at once, or one at a time, and the altitude of the detonations. If detonated all at once, they’ll just interfere with one another, screwing up the delicate timing required for…

Who decides which countries have a right to own nuclear weapons?

In practice, nobody decides. The term international law gives the impression that there’s some kind of organization that decides on policies and enforces them. There really isn’t one. Outside national boundaries, the world is all but lawless. Other…

How many nuclear weapons does North Korea really have?

I think it’s more of a question of how many nuclear warheads does N.K. have that could be easily delivered. How many, if any, have been made that are small enough to fit on an ICBM that can…