Former United States President Jimmy Carter once said “ For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.” Whether his statements resonate with you or not, I tend to identify with his sentiments. Nuclear proliferation is a major crisis in the world we are a part of today, and in my opinion the most important world politics issue.
If our world fails at the task of subverting nuclear proliferation in any way, such as letting nuclear weapons fall into the hands of terrorists, our world may cease to exist. Organizations would begin attacking institutions that went against their orthodox dogma, and nations would begin to mobilize preemptive strikes on neighboring countries in order to protect their own citizens. Before the rest of us blinked, our families, friends, and peers may be obliterated from the face of the Earth.
Society would live in constant fear of the end of days, governments would begin to instill excessive regulation which would result in a loss of liberty and a destruction of our pursuit of happiness. Human rights would be unobtainable through “big brother policies” and planetary resources would be inaccessible because of harsh regulation. The citizens of the world would not truly be living, instead they would simply be existing- unable to move without “proper” planning by their states. Since nuclear proliferation is so relative to our lives it should be our world's first priority to suppress nuclear arms or rid of them entirely to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
