Reader Digest May 2008-----Pg 30~Pg 33

This article is mainly about how to stop terrorists from getting materials to build nuclear bomb and the answers from the article is NOT MUCH CHANCE!

Nuclear bomb is a great weapon to the terrorists and had great destruction forces and can cause great damages to a country if it is misuse by the terrorists. Example given is the bombing in Brussels that cause the entire infrastructure to fall and cause million of death in a minute time.

But in fact, it could be avoided. All we need to do is to stop the production of nuclear bomb. You may wonder how, but it is very easy yet hard to achieve. Why?In order to produce nuclear bomb, you need to first fuelled it with plutonium or uranium, which is very difficult to make and does not occur in nature, which must be created by humans. So in order to make nuclear bombs, terrorists need to gain possession of the fissile materials from country which produce it. The only way to gain possession of the materials is not only by stealing, but by illegal transition. Some countries produce materials and even sell it to disreputable buyers, which may be greatly dangerous.

I think that the main purpose of them selling it to the others is because of the power of money. With money, they tend to do anything without considering the consequences. I tend to give my opinion that they think that money is everything. But why did not they weight the pluses and minus, is money more important or human lives worth more? Although they may deny that they had sell it to a terrorists, but even there a single chance of putting the world in danger, I seriously think that they should not do so.

After reading this article, i also think that rules should be enforced by international government, banning the selling of plutonium or uranium to anyone or any other countries. Through this, this greatly minimise the chance that nuclear bombs could be produce and therefore reduce the possibility of more and more terrorists attack.

Done by: Jerome GoH ( 36 )