When most people think of a nuclear threat, they think of a nuclear attack from a

foreign nation. In reality, the largest nuclear threat comes not from foreign attack, but

from a much closer enemy: nuclear power. Nuclear power is very dangerous, and should

be done away with.

The nuclear age dawned in 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs

on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombing had at least two effects:

the Japanese surrender, bringing World War II to a swift end; and many people in the

United States, especially scientists and officials involved in the development of atomic

bombs, were awed, frightened and filled with guilt over the death and destruction they

had caused.

Some psychologists and historians believe that guilt, more than any other reason,

led the United States government to invest billions of dollars to develop peacetime uses of

nuclear energy, in a kind of crusade to show that nuclear......

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