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7 pages in length. A look at how much waste will be created from post-Cold War arms reduction and the serious problems mankind faces in trying to get rid of it. A thorough discussion is provided about the lifespan of specific radioactive elements, the true health risks faced by humans, and the terrible problem that continues to grow in sites like Nevada, U.S.A. where more and more waste is dumped while governments still continue to search for a more feasible solution. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the same; Man has harnessed a power which when unleashed is extremely lethal to himself. Man knows very few efficient ways in which to contain the fallout of
this power, commonly known as radiation, so man just continues to "play" with this power he literally can not control thus creating even more of a mess which man simply
can not clean up. The latest addition to this global collection of nuclear wastepiles is a steadily increasing list of nuclear weapons which are no
longer necessary since the conclusion of the Cold War. Of course, the end of forty years worrying about "sudden Russian nuclear attacks" is definitely a positive factor. The
reality, however, is that any optimism in this situation is dimmed by the impossibility of efficiently disposing of the vast number of warheads we wish to rid ourselves of.
(Cagan). In September of 1991, President George Bush gave a grand "nuclear-weapons reduction" speech. The glamour of its promise was awe-inspiring to the average
U.S. citizen watch the President on their television set. The reality of its demand, however, came as a heavy burden to the atomic arms industry. Even as recently
as early 1994, there were still nearly three thousand warheads headed for early retirement, containing about twenty-five tons of enriched uranium and ten tons of plutonium; both highly radioactive and
extremely difficult to dispose of. At the production level, the Department of Energys Pantex bomb-assembling facility in Texas, which was expecting to build over 3,500 warheads over the next
few years, suddenly had to reverse gears and begin dismantling weapons. Thomas Cochran, a nuclear arms expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council claims that such a reversal can
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