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Dear Congressman Kirk,
In our country we have recently been very
worried about how our wars are going overseas. The war in Iraq started
because we believed that Iraq was constructing weapons of mass
destruction. The war in Afghanistan started because of terrorists attacked
our country. The war between Lebanon and Israel was due to a terrorist
group kidnapping two Israeli soldiers. In 2004 the UN stated that
terrorism is “intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians
or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or
compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain
from doing any act”. Thus what exactly was Israel’s strike back against
Lebanon which so far has killed 400 civilians and 30 “others”? That means
for every 1 civilian dead 0.069 militants are dead. Terrorism is
everywhere, and now that Israel is technically doing it, ask yourself, do
you really want a government capable of that many civilians deaths in
possession of nuclear weapons? Needless to say, if our country really
tries hard to stop countries form getting nuclear weapons or even nuclear
programs, what gives us the right to use nuclear weapons, and nuclear
power? We ourselves don’t even understand it all the way. Before the Three
Mile Island incident we didn’t even know what would happen if a reactor
was to have a meltdown. And no one really knows just what all the nuclear
waste we “dispose” of is going to do to use later on down the road. By the
way, disposing of nuclear wastes means burying it in the ground really far
down. Very scientific. Illinois itself has 8 of these disposal centers in
it.
So if the effects are so bad, and the power
itself can cause meltdowns and wastes that will be here a long time down
the road, why are we so reckless with it? The time it will take for
nuclear waste to be safe is about the time we as humans have had recorded
history; kind of scary. Nuclear weapons are even worse. Terrorism and
nuclear weapons are showing up in the news ever day. What’s bad about
those two words put together? In our world today war lost most its' honor
that it used to have. If our country seriously fears other countries
obtaining nuclear weapons, then we should set the example. For the
civilians of the world to be safe, truly, no country should be in
possession of nukes. We should make a multinational commission that
controls all nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. For the people who
claim that this is “un-realistic” there are a million things in history
that are un-realistic, but still done. In 1944 do you think anyone saw the
UN coming into being? Today it is present in 192 countries out of 243. Why
do this? Because nuclear power was made to be a weapon and when it was
used in 1945 it was devastating. Those nukes were BB guns compared to the
things we are capable of now. And thinking of what these could do in the
hands of some of the people alive today is scary. No one should control
these things which could be the end of life as we know it.
Nukes are going to only become more used and
more prevalent in society as time goes by and truly these and all our
other power sources are going to kill us in the end. Something has to be
done soon, or else most nations in the world are going to be in cold wars
with each other. No one should hold the ultimate weapon that the nuke is.
This is why I wrote to you. |
