The threat of nuclear weapons, explained | JUST THE FAQS
The threat of nuclear weapons, explained | JUST THE FAQS
There are thousands of nuclear weapons in the world, and just two countries possess 90% of them. Here are the safeguards in place to prevent nuclear war.
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0.38 -> One nuclear weapon could
obliterate an entire city,
3.51 -> potentially killing millions
while threatening the
environment in the lives of
7.2 -> future generations, through its
long term catastrophic effects.
11.26 -> Here's who owns the most
destructive weapons on the
planet and the safeguards in
15.08 -> place to make sure they don't use them.
17.35 -> Nine countries make up what is referred
to as the nuclear club, the us, the UK,
22.17 -> Russia, France, Israel, Pakistan,
India, China, and North Korea,
26.57 -> but it's Russia. And the us that
possess 90% of the world's nukes.
30.76 -> There are over 13,000 nuclear weapons
in the world today, but in most cases,
35.53 -> the exact number in each
country's possession is a
closely held national secret,
39.79 -> a nuclear weapon,
40.47 -> which can be delivered via airland or sea
is a device that uses nuclear reaction
45.32 -> to create an explosion giving off
four types of energy, a blast wave,
49.53 -> intense light heat, and radiation.
52.36 -> The explosion creates a large fireball,
54.87 -> which vaporizes upward into
a mushroom shaped cloud.
58.32 -> The material in the cloud drops
back down to earth as fall out out,
61.82 -> which is radioactive and
can contaminate anything.
64.81 -> It lands on some nuclear weapons.
66.92 -> Like the Intercontinental ballistic
missile can travel as far as
70.58 -> 3,400 miles. That's the distance
from New York to Alaska.
75.91 -> The us invented the nuclear weapon
and in 1945 conducted the first
80.49 -> nuclear test explosion called
the Trinity test. That same year,
85.14 -> the us detonated two more nuclear weapons,
87.62 -> atomic bombs on the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing over
92.46 -> 200,000 people. World war
II ended soon after this,
96.46 -> but then the cold war started. The nuclear
arms race began as the Soviet union.
101.3 -> The UK France began conducting
their own nuclear test.
104.99 -> Explosions countries started stockpiling
nuclear arms amid the cold war.
109.57 -> And at the height of the nuclear age,
111.52 -> there were 70,000 nuclear
warheads around the globe.
114.77 -> But in the years that followed the UN
introduced a slew of treaties to prevent
118.95 -> nuclear weapon ranks
from expanding further,
121.3 -> such as the nonproliferation
tree or N P T in 1968.
125.95 -> Today almost every country in the
world is part of the N P T except for
129.66 -> South Sudan, India, Pakistan, Israel,
and North Korea. After the cold war,
134.2 -> the number of warheads
decreased drastically thanks
to arms control agreements
138.04 -> and the dismantling of retired equipment,
140.28 -> but nuclear powers like the us and
Russia are in the us of updating their
144.77 -> arsenals and have no intention of
giving them up between 2019 and
149.45 -> 2028.
150.59 -> The us will have spent 494
billion on upgrading its arsenal,
155.72 -> modernizing outdated
equipment from submarines to
ballistic missiles to nuclear
160.09 -> warheads.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbvk5Sl-w2A