AFF/NUCLEAR: NUCLEAR WEAPON USE COULD ESCALATE TO GLOBAL NUCLEAR OBLITERATION

A SINGLE NUCLEAR WEAPON USED COULD LEAD TO A GLOBAL EXCHANGE OBLITERATING OUR ENTIRE WORLD

If a single nuclear weapon were accidentally launched, it could destroy a city but that’s not all. With current launch-on-warning doctrines, an accidental launch could end up in a full-fledged nuclear war. This would mean the end of civilization and everything we value — just like that. The men and women in charge of these weapons could make a mistake, computers or sensors could make a mistake — and just like that our beautiful world could be obliterated. We can’t let that happen.

THE NEXT NUCLEAR CONFLICT WILL BECOME WORLD WAR THREE

Rotblat, Joseph, Nuclear Physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995 for nuclear war study, 1999. New Perspectives Quarterly, Summer 1998, "Nuclear Weapons for none or for all." p.23 //khan

The recent nuclear tests by India and Pakistan have caused shock and alarm but should not have come as a surprise. There are genuine reasons for alarm. Two neighboring countries, which have been at loggerheads from the moment they gained independence and have fought several wars over a disputed territory, have demonstrated their capacity to manufacture nuclear weapons. Should there occur another military confrontation between them, there is a real danger that nuclear weapons will be used. In such an event, there is a distinct possibility of the involvement of the two nuclear powers in Asia Russia and China - perhaps even leading to World War III.