Persuasive Essay: The Disarmament Of Nuclear Weapons

While many good things have been such as banning the testing of nuclear weapons and thier used more can be done. More countries are trying to abtain nuclear powers and onther countries have stock piles of the weapons. The more countries with nuclear powers and the more weapons that are stock piled can lead to accidents and difficulty in controlling the nukes. What needs to be done is a disarmament of nuclear weapons and a cease in the attempt to getting nuclear powers.
The public still had a distrust of nuclear weapons and energy, but the benefits of nuclear energy appeared to out weigh this distrust; at least for a while. A considerable number of protests all there the world occurred. Multiple groups, organizations, books, papers, and conferences

formed out of this protest. Events such as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and numerous accidents from natural disasters showed why even if safety is trying to be implemented using nuclear powers can still be dangerous.
Even with the Partial Test Ban (1963), which stopped most of the testing of nuclear weapons, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban (1996), which ended all nuclear testing in the world, there are still issues with using nuclear energy; Which still puts radio active isotopes into the atmosphere if accidents occur.
The first step to nuclear peace was to remove government control over nuclear powers. After the bombing of Japan occurred public opinions of nukes shifted which caused nuclear research and control to be relinquished from the government.
The McMahon Act (1946) was birthed for this purpose which produced the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This commission still developed nuclear weapons, but they also worked on nuclear energy.
The reason the relinquishment of control from the government was a pivotal moment in the anti-nuclear war movement was because the government only used the research to create weapons. With the control in the hands of civilians the research still developed weapons, but it also moved toward the creation of energy using fission and fusion. Another benefit of civilian control is that the change decreased tensions between countries as distrust of America from booming Japan grew in a staggering amount.