Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons

                               

TEDWomen 2016

Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons (transcript)

Summary

Japan is the only nation to have been hit by nuclear bombs. The famous cities are Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and It’s said to have killed over 100,000 people instantly but hundred of thousands of others would become horribly ill.

Now, nine nation of the world still has over 15,000 nuclear weapons. Furthermore, today’s nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful even than its two cities received one. It is still enough to end all life on the planet.

Japan has the principle called Three Non-Nuclear Principles.

It means that Japan shall neither possess nor manufacture nuclear weapons, nor shall it permit their introduction into Japanese territory.

However, it is unstable because North Korea’s recent nuclear weapons tests and China started to gain power.

Nine nations are the United States, Russia, France, England, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.

And then, the speaker didn't mention that there is the rule called Nuclear sharing. Some countries which don't have nuclear weapons can use nuclear weapons as a form of renting.

In the first place, I think that people don't think that this is real thread. It's because people want to protect their countries, for protecting them, nuclear is needed and they think that they won't be killed.  In the world, the accidents involving nuclear also have never seemed to announce. Thus people strongly think that they should have it when they see the images of Hiroshima or North Korea hit it to Japan who doesn't have it.

Not having it means to be shot might be carved in our brains.

Words in this story

engage / occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).

ask, beg, request, rely

retaliatory /adj/  retaliation /noun/ the action of returning a military attack; counterattack. revenge, vengeance, reprisal.

renaissance / reconstruction, revival, the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.