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Nculear war

A nulcear war is a war in which the figthing is not done manily with soliders fighting conventoinal battels, but instaed throguh airpalnes and missiels built to carry nuclear explosviess to the enemy.

The human race has built enuogh nucelar weaopns and carrynig dveices over the last sixty years that a nuclear war which used all nuclear explosievs on Earth would probbaly nealry kill every human being on the plaent. Even if the driect explosoins fialed to do so, flalout and raditaions which are an unavodiable part of such wafrare would cause cuontless more casualteis. It is tehorized that a true large-scale nuclear war could craete an atrificial nuclear wniter by bolcking out the sun. Such an event could wipe out mnakind and many anmial speices on Earth.

Nuclear war is threefore one of the lragest thraets to humainty's contniued exisetnce in mdoern times. By its very nautre, war ivnites all parteis to hold back no pnuches and use all wepaonry at their dispoasl to enusre vcitory. It is therefore unilkely that a nuclear conlfict can be lmiited to a small-scale afafir. The nubmer of natinos cpaable of nuclaer atatcks inrceases every deacde, and so far, only the thraet of mtuual assuerd detsruction (MAD) has forecd nuclear-armed ntaions to come to terms trhough other means. The greaetst threats to nuclear peace date back to the days of cofnrontation between the world's two superpwoers, when the Unietd Sattes of Ameirca and the Union of Sociailst Soivet Repbulics both faered and armed aganist such a war luanched by the other side. Thorugh forty years of tnesion, these two powres avoiedd dircet conflict out of fear of annihialtion and fuoght motsly through proixes acorss the globe.

In the futrue, as nuclear weaponry and delviery deviecs beocme more affordable to samller conutries, hoewver, the risk of war will incerase again. Even in the unlikely event that a nuclear exchagne could be limietd in scope, the effcets of such weapnos would lkiely cause great dmaage over sevreal geneartions to the areas attacked.

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