Nuclear technology presents a grave danger to humanity and should be banned globally?

It is broadly known the effects of nuclear technology in the war field. Since the end of the second war and with the cold war, every country and every person have developed a fear related with the nuclear technology, specifically with the atomic bomb. We have seen this fear represented in arts, films and international policy. Despite this, there are another uses that nuclear technology bring to the world, those can balance the perception about this technology and drive to do a critical approach.

To do a critical approach it is important to know which the uses of nuclear technology are. In war, the materialization of nuclear technology has been known as nuclear bomb; considered as mass destruction weapon because it causes devastation and desolation as the world witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. There was not a world reflection about the effects; furthermore it was an arm race to build more bombs. As a result, nowadays there is an uncontrollable nuclear power in different countries which increased the probabilities to be used in war. Moreover this race has show us accidents and disasters

However, there have been other nuclear technologies uses that bring us to think that it should not be banned. Examples of those uses are: Nuclear power to generate energy, medical applications in radiation treatments, and industrial and commercial applications, food irradiations to destroy bacteria, etc. Those examples encourage us to believe that with a good regulation nuclear technology can improve our live quality.

After this reflection, I think that nuclear technology should not be banned. Countries and nongovernmental organizations should work together to strengthen the laws related with the uses of nuclear technology and the programs related with the reduction of nuclear weapons.