Einstein's nuclear formula and its ramifications in shaping geo-political security aspects: A case study of the United States of America, 1905-2011

Abstract

This project involves showing the relationship between Einstein's formula, E=MC2 and nuclear weapons and how it has affected the international security with threats. The United States of America has been used as a case study. It highlights the perception of the new types of threats to the international and human security by the growing scientific ideas in the area of nuclear weapons. It also tries to find out whether a state having nuclear weapons makes it safer. This chapter will theoretically define weak states concept, where the differentiation between strong and weak states will be given, and thus the difference in threat perception and level of vulnerabilities. This study adopted a comparative study approach, which is a careful analytical approach process of variable interaction and the links between the dependent and independent variables. This research was conducted based on the quantitative empirical research including analysis of the statistical data. All they have built, all they have worked for, would be destroyed in the first 24 hours. And even in the cold war, which brings burdens and dangers to so many countries, including Americas closest allies bear the heaviest burdens.