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Atomic Bomb a Political Weapon The atomic bomb was first created in the early twentieth century. Physicists in the United States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used to create a deadly explosive weapon. The amount of energy that was released by this explosion alone was equivalent to twenty thousand tons of TNT. This type of bomb was first tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. Only the United States …

…is on the burden of the taxpayers and the environmental damage that will occur is unacceptable. The atomic bomb provides tactical advantages in addition to its awesome political power but at the same time is way too expensive to have lying around. There has not been a significant impact on world affairs by nuclear weapons since World War II. Therefore, the public absolutely will not agree to use nuclear weapons as a force of destruction.