Transition to Nuclear War

Abstract

Despite their horrifying destructive power, seen at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has not freed itself from nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons add a radically different dimension to the war-making capability of a nation. A nation in the modern world of economic, commercial and technological geopolitics influenced by increasing globalisation and the growing covert and overt proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) cannot remain uninfluenced by these trends and events. Applying force as a means of achieving political objectives has been followed constantly throughout the centuries by powerful nations. A major concern today when applying force to subjugate an opponent to the political will of the nation remains the question of what will happen if the other side resorts to nuclear war. This question always lingers because nuclear weapons have immense destructive power. Although it is clear that the use of nuclear weapons cannot help any nation, but rather will create many problems for it, their possession has nevertheless been advocated [2] as a deterrent to achieve political goals.