armament

From Latin armamentum, armament is a concept that refers to the set of weapons of all kinds that is available to a Military body. The notion also indicates everything that is necessary for the war. For example: "The general is very calm and affirms that we have the necessary weapons to win the war", "Our weapons were not enough to counter the enemy forces", "The international community condemned the use of nuclear weapons".

It should be noted that a weapon is a tool that serves to attack or defend. It is an instrument that allows you to physically injure or even kill a person. Armament, therefore, is the set of weapons available to a country, a army or another type of entity.

The term is also often used in reference to the weapons accumulated by a criminal organization, a guerrilla group or any other group: "The police seized a weapon with pistols, machine guns and grenades that belonged to a gang of drug traffickers", "The president believes that the weapons of the guerrillas will not pose a problem for the army", "I invite the rebels to hand over their weapons to the authorities so that we can dialogue without pressure".

Having weapons is usually the exclusive power of the security forces of a Condition. In this sense, society accepts that the police or the army increase their weapons to protect the community. On the other hand, when the weapons are in the hands of civilians, it is considered a risk to the population.

Nuclear weapons

A nuclear weapon is known as any high-powered explosive that is based on Energy nuclear for its operation. Nuclear energy, also called atomic energy, is that which is released spontaneously or artificially in nuclear reactions, which combine and transform sub-atomic particles and atomic nuclei. Some fundamental components of nuclear weapons are ICBMs, submarine-launched missiles, and some of the technology necessary to handle and operate them.

During the call Trinity test The first nuclear detonation in history was carried out, and it took place in the North American State of New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, as an experiment that was part of a great scientific project called Manhattan, which had the objective of develop the first bomb atomic. In this project, contemporary to World War II, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada participated, in an attempt to have nuclear weapons before Nazi Germany.

The beginning of the so-called nuclear age took place after the United States detonated two atomic bombs, uranium and plutonium, in the cities Japanese from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. According to some historians, the US government's intention was not primarily to make the Japanese surrender, but largely to make the USSR aware of its gleaming nuclear weapons and to think twice about its actions in the imminent postwar period.

The nuclear bomb is one of the most destructive weapons ever created by man, which explains why they are normally included in the ABQ classification, an acronym that stands for "atomic, biological, chemical" and which used to refer to units civil or military that they had the mission of fighting threats of one of these three types, or the threat itself.

Nuclear weaponry, in short, is one of the most impressive discoveries of the human being, as well as one of those that never should have been, since it is also the cause of endless unjust deaths and lives torn apart than any other. discovery may amend.