Nuclear War: World War III: The PastThis essay aims to explore technology in warfare: specifically, nuclear weapons. I will take a look at the past, present and future of this in general, and in my nuclear collage, referring to the film "Equilibrium" and the "Nuclear Art movement", an artistic and literary group founded in 1951 as a response to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (in particular the works of Voltolino Fontani). First of all I want to focus on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To date, this is the only time nuclear weapons have been used in a war. Although the war in Europe ended with the surrender of the Nazis in May 1945, the "Pacific War" continued. On July 26, 1945, the United States allied itself with China and the United Kingdom, demanding the surrender of Japanese forces in the “Potsdam Declaration,” literally threatening “immediate and total destruction.” Japan refused, and what followed was a horrendous, violent attack against many innocent civilians. On August 6 and 9, two separate bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One was a "weapon" type uranium bomb, and the other an "implosion type" plutonium bomb. In the first four months, between 90,000 and 166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and between 60,000 and 80,000 in Nagasaki. Over half of these deaths occurred on the first day, but many later died from radiation sickness. Exposure to plutonium outside the body poses very few health risks, but once ingested, the results can be serious. Most plutonium ingested with food or water passes through the body, but when inhaled, the lungs can absorb chemicals into the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream, plutonium moves throughout the body and into multiple organs. Plutonium is a toxic metal. It… halfway through the document… defines five states as “nuclear weapon states”: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China. Four other states are believed to have nuclear weapons (India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel), and all of these are not currently party to the NPT. Even though there are only 5 nuclear-armed states, the United States shares weapons within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Basically, this means that the United States supplies over 180 nuclear bombs to be used, if necessary, by Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Türkiye. This "arms sharing" is contested by many states, who argue that this violates key parts of the treaty. Works Cited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons http://www.un.org/disarmament /WMD/Nuclear/NPT.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non- Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons#United_States-NATO_nuclear_weapons_sharing