Nuclear Power as a Tool for US Hegemony in World Politics

Abstract

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to generate heat that are most widely used in steam turbines to generate electricity in a nuclear power plant. Regarding to its high energy supply capability and the cause of providing directives to produce mass destructive weapons for warfare it became the world’s most crucial power element when doing power politics. This study forces on how USA allured to use this special power to make a hegemon in the world politics rather than promoting democracy in the world. In 1945 they adopted this nuclear power as the model of atomic bombs to collapse the break out of Eastern power ideologies around the world and put an end to the Second World War (WWII). Thus, USA was the first country to use the nuclear power in a war by dropping two atomic bombs in to the Japanese two main cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th of August 1945. Since 1945 up to date there was not occurred any nuclear weapons utilization on an arm race even though nuclear practices are happening around the world. This study advocates how USA threat on other rising powers and restraining nuclear practices and its utilization by her macro nuclear proliferation. This study has based on secondary data and it has been collected through websites, journal and research articles and online magazines etc. This secondary data will be analyzed by the qualitative data analysis. Nevertheless, the timeline of this study clearly evaluates how USA obtained threat on power politics by her nuclear accumulation since WWII to 21st century.