Was that really necessary?

Greetings everyone and welcome to my blog. Today I am glad for another engaging topic from the hive learners community. The community be giving us back to back. So much fun and engaging contents to write about. The things I love about this contents is that they broadened our horizons and perspectives and in turn get us rubbing minds with different ideas and perspectives on the same matter.

The world has indeed come along way all thanks to science. From the Stone Age to this beautiful age of technology we have grown and evolved. Science and its impact in man’s life cannot be over emphasized and we see it all around. Science has done a lot to improve our lives on different and diverse fronts and everyday we keep seeing the rise of different technologies and new invention. We say that whatever have an advantage also has a disadvantage and science and its inventions are not left off this.

In as much as we have seen it’s help in different veins, some places are still under question as to their advancement and what it would hold for man and today I want to touch an aspect of science that I am a little skeptical about. It has its good sides but I am beginning to think that its getting to the over doing part of it and it could spell more harm to mankind than the actual good it was intended for and that’s the area of nuclear technology.

My skepticism about the world of nuclear technology began after I heard the story of how Nagasaki and Hiroshima was wiped off by just one drop of nuclear weapon. It’s been many many years after and the people, the environment and the surrounding countries have not yet recovered from the impact. The thing here is that nuclear energy is cool but the act of using it to manufacture weapons of mass destructions, are they really necessary?

source

We see world powers threatening one another with their nuclear weapon reserve. Any little scuffle they make boasts of how they have the largest nucleus weapon reserve and all they need to do is to press just a button and the whole nation is wiped off and I ask to what end. If nuclear energy is used just for the good and not for destruction then that’s understandable.

Some of the good things about nuclear energy is that nuclear power plants can provide energy without emitting green house effects unlike fossil fuels which make them a good source of energy production. They can also serve as a more reliable source of energy since they are reliable and can operate continuously to produce energy. Nuclear power is also very scalable and can go along way to meet the global demand for power supply.

It’s has its disadvantages such as the emitting of radioactive materials which are dangerously to health and the environment. The waste from radioactive materials poses serious hazards which lasts for thousands of years and proper method disposal is still being developed and the thing is the fact that the weapons made form these nuclear materials can be prone to sabotage, hijack, theft and even terrorism is an object of concern. If we were only dealing with these then it would have been manageable but to take these and form them into weapons of mass destruction is going over board and definitely of no use to man.

Posted Using INLEO