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A 4 page description of the basic features of these three political structures. This paper evaluates those structures in regard to the threat they represent in terms of their propensity for utilizing nuclear weapons. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of the worlds population. Although they have been in existence since World War II, however, they have never been used aggressively since World War II. Interestingly, it was
the United States that developed nuclear weapons. It is also the United States that holds the distinction of having used these weapons against other human beings. This
is true despite the facts that numerous countries, other democratic countries as well as authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, now have nuclear weapons. The obvious question then is do one
of these political systems present more of a threat than the others in terms of the dangers of nuclear weapons? The intent of this paper is to discuss each
of these types of political structures and to assess how that structure interplays into their propensity to utilize weaponry that has such devastating potential.
If we consider the history of nuclear weapons and their utilization we might hastily jump to the conclusion that democratic systems such as our own are more likely to
use these types of weapons than are other political regimes. We are, after all, not only the developer of these weapons but also the only one to have ever
actually used them aggressively. The reality is, however, that democracies inherently are less likely to take such drastic actions than are other types of political regimes. While history
presents obvious questions in regard to nuclear weapons, the reality is that democracies such as ours, while not true democracies in the sense that every citizen votes on every issue
that arises, are set up so that the common citizen has the ability to influence our governments actions. Benhabib (67) contends that the function of modern democracies is to
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