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Nuclear War Research Paper

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Instate violence has decreased in recent decades when it comes to nuclear war, but small arms war is still wide spread. More "wars" have had the use of guns than the use of nuclear weapons. More people have been killed in "wars" because of guns than because of nuclear weapons. However, more people can be killed in an instant by nuclear weapons whereas when you use a gun, more people can be killed in a span of a few months. It is also easier and cheaper to get a gun than it is to make and use a nuclear weapon. Terrorists are scary with a gun or a box-cutter, but imagining ISIS or Al Qaeda with a nuclear weapon would cause the utmost terror across America.

Liberalists and their conflicts are driven by issues like scarcity and survivability. An example would be Hugo Chavez's regime in Venezuela. They fight over access to resources or control of the government. Realists believe that you cannot trust anyone in an anarchic society. Problems with realistic theory lay on factors of offensive and defensive advantage and the ability to tell the difference between those two. Some examples would be WWI and the use of the machine gun and how no one would think that Canada and the United States …show more content…

Wars are usually fought for getting resources or based on ideologies or religion. Democratic institutions may sway public opinion, but this still may not result in future wars. Domestic order is in opposition to international anarchy and highlights the challenges facing international institutions. We need to identify different domestic interests that value the cost of war differently. The government itself can be an actor that can have interests in threatening or starting a war. Democratic peace tries to explain that having a democratic world will result in less war, but that is not true. Wars against democracies can be predicted by chance. An example of this would be the American Civil War when democracies fought one

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