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Selected Current Security Aspects of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Disarmament
doc. Ing. Otakar Jiří Mika, CSc., Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Department of Crisis Management
The expert study elaborates on the importance of the following security fields – nuclear weapons, nuclear armaments and nuclear disarmament. In addition to the introduction and clarification of the origins of nuclear weapons, the article deals in detail with the nuclear destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including the elucidation of the destructive factors of a nuclear explosion. In the following part, the article focuses on the US-Russian relations in the field of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament. The presented overview of nuclear weapons reflects on the findings of the prestigious security yearbook SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) from Sweden. Some major security issues of nuclear weapons are being discussed, including the author’s own comprehensive proposal for a permanent reduction of the risks the current nuclear weapons pose. In the conclusion, the author expresses cautious optimism with regard to the new US President Joe Biden, the presumed extension of the US-Russia nuclear treaty START 3 and, generally speaking, further improvements in the US-Russia relations, particularly gradual amelioration of mutual relations in the process of nuclear disarmament.
Keywords: nuclear weapons, nuclear armament, nuclear disarmament, nuclear explosion, destructive factors of nuclear explosion.