Billions of dollars in assembly and operating new experimental facilities at United States nuclear weapons labs were planned by the Department of Energy (DOE) (Zerriffi, Hisham, and Arjun Makhijani). This program is named SBSS, which stands for Science Based Stockpile Stewardship. The SBSS program is a “basic need” to accomplish national security policies which command a “safe and reliable stockpile with further nuclear testing and aggressive pursuit of enhanced experimental capabilities” (Zerriffi, Hisham, and Arjun Makhijani). In this proposal, the Department of Defense entails the DOE to preserve the ability to construct and attest new weapons (Zerriffi, Hisham, and Arjun Makhijani).

Several individuals within the Pentagon strongly believe that testing of nuclear weapons will become more crucial

On the other hand, peace should not involve the testing and construction of nuclear weapons that cause mass destruction and death throughout the world. If let alone and not pursued, these types of military hardware could and would not harm us. Do not forget about the amount of contamination nuclear weapons produce as well. For years these nuclear weapons have been contaminating our environment by discharging harmful contaminants into the environment, but yet they still seem to be the backbone of our nation being built and tested every single day (Armstrong, David, 1). Throughout most of the Cold War period, nuclear physics was the popular science that got most of the nation’s public funding. “Within the past two decades, giant corporations have been increasingly dictating the kind of science and scientific research that gets done, mostly to fatten themselves at our expense, so they can all better exploit us for further gain” (“The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex Engineering Life & Mind”).

We, as humans, are capable of controlling nature to some sort of degree, unlike any other animal on earth. We are the smartest of beings on the planet and thus, have a responsibility to use our knowledge to our advantage. This is the very reason why we are able to regulate most of the good or bad effects that happen on earth. In spite of this, we do not do what is best for the environment in most cases. Every single year people and animals arrive at their death from the

pollution we have caused. Chemicals are continuously becoming one of the chief problems with managing the environment to an extent. Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. These poisons, in time, end up in the water we drink and shower in daily (“Contaminating the Environment”). Strontium 90 is one of t

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