American Conquest to Control Nuclear Power and the Result of Securing Such Power (1962 to 1996)

Abstract

It is undeniable that The United States of America has always been the leading nation when it comesto technological warfare. Starting off from small fire armssuch asthe Smith and Wesson 357, and Pistol all the way to the Carbine M14 in the late 1950s. But ever since, the human race came across the discovery of nuclear substances and atomic chain reactions in 1895. Countries all over the world wanted to adapt it into war and the U.S. was no different, sadly wherever there is a rivalry, there is conflict. This research aims to investigate the multiple adapted containment policies used by the United States on other countries to keep its hand on top of nuclear power even on itself. This conflict started off as mere race to who had the most Nuclear Warhead then escalated to who had the most powerful Nuclear Warheads all the way to full out threats between nations over Nuclear Warheads. The Western Hemisphere was almost completely eradicated over a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States of America at the Caribbean waters. The conflict occurred because of a political crisis concerning Cuba. Indeed, the U.S. activated DEFCON 3 and the Soviet Union initiated ballistic missile deployment in Cuba with a confrontation that lasted 13 days, this event was also called the Missile Scare. On the other side of the globe, there was also an issue with the Korean Peninsula when the two Koreas wanted to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conditions were put by the International Atomic Energy Agency that revolved around restrictions on both countries. Admittedly, when it comes to the possession, manufacturing or researching, any and all nuclear substances in exchange of both the Soviet Union and the United States of America would retract all of their land and sea based Nuclear Warhead from the peninsula. Later on, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) also known as North Korea was accused of cheating on its safeguard’s agreement; which sparked a wave of accusations and threats to its national security. However little did the U.S. know about the despair it was on the verge of bringing on its own people. multiple experimentations on the test site of Nevada failed, where they thought it had a low dispersal rate only to find out that even with such dispersal rate catastrophes still resulted from it. The United States of America used multiple adapted containment policies on other countries to keep its hand on top of nuclear power even on itself.