Since the invention of nuclear weapons there has been a
long period of global peace and stability––but are
nuclear weapons global peacemakers or just killing devices? The
world’s first nuclear weapon explosion occurred on July 16,
1945. Just three weeks later on August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was
dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. If these weapons were
such doves, then why would they be made to kill? These weapons
may be peacemakers, but in the wrong way. Nuclear weapons are
making peace in the voice of fear, which in hindsight is not
really peace at all. Any person who owns a dictionary would be
able to read that the definition of ‘peace’ is
freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility. It is hardly
believable that the atomic bomb could be described as quiet and
tranquil, or that it could not be described as a disturbance. The
atomic bomb is a peacemaker––Oh, the irony.
