Nuclear weapon testing is considered to be dangerous. It is a deterrent for war.

Nuclear weapon testing is considered to be dangerous. It is a deterrent for war.

On July 16 1945, New Mexico when the Trinity explosion was successfully completed, Robert J. Oppenheimer said, “ Now I become Death, the destroyer of the world”. He, without knowing the phantom risk and real risk of the atomic bomb, realised that he has developed a recipe of failure and earth will not be a safe haven anymore.

After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosion, the words proved to be true and it marked the beginning of the atomic age. Since then the rate of nuclear testing has increased tremendously as a part of the country's self-defence program. Especially between the superpowers like Russia and the United States. Reports suggest that during the period of 1953 to 1968 these two countries have tested so many nuclear weapons that it has created a negative impact on the environment. As most of the nuclear tests have been tested in the northern hemisphere, study shows that it’s natural and aquatic life is contaminated with radioactive elements and earthquakes which are a great threat for the survival of the living organism.

Though there have been attempts for preventing excessive testing by different countries, like the Non-Proliferation Treaty which deters countries from illicit use of nuclear weapons and helps in maintaining the balance with nature. But the history of Nuclear weapons since WW2 is full of mishappenings like Chernobyl, costing the lives of thousands of living beings.

Definitely, with increasing nuclear active nations, war has deterred, but there is a much higher risk of extinction of the human species as certain countries like North Korea cannot be trusted with a blind eye. There has always been political and military tension with the US and North Korea, this can trigger the war resulting in the complete extinction of human species with this nuclear invention. This is the only reason that private space research agencies like SpaceX and Virgin are trying to find lives on other planets so that they could save human colonies away from nuclear risk.