American Nuclear Weapons Testing

American Nuclear Weapons Testing: Necessary For National Security American policy makers in the late 1940s debated the very controversial topic of nuclear weapons testing on American soil. Previously, American policy makers such as Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) head Sumner Pike stated that, “only a national emergency could justify testing in the United States” (Ball 27-28). As the Soviet Union and communism expanded half a world away, hostilities broke out in Korea, which authorities asserted was …

…said, the United States government caused its citizens harm by allowing them to be exposed to radiation when other viable alternatives such as nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands existed. No conditions should have warranted nuclear weapons testing within the continental United States. The effects of radiation caused thousands of people to die and suffer due to radiation related cancers and diseases which wouldn’t have occurred were it not for nuclear testing in Nevada.