**********REPLY TO EACH RESPONSE 100 WORDS MIN EACH ********** 1.) For this week's forum, I nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons have been symbols of power and destructions that can rip and destroy the human composition, if not the entire world. Nuclear weapons have been used only twice in combat in the history of the world. The first was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the second time on August 9, 1945. these two events eradicated almost 250,000 people on its initial impact called the blast. In 1945 a 15 kiloton bomb called little boy wipe between 90,000 and 146,000 people in Hiroshima, and a 20 kiloton bomb called Fat man wipe from 39,000 and 80,000 in Nagasaki. However, the blast death toll does not include the lives lost due to the after-effects of radiation exposure, especially those in contact with the black rain. It is believed that this rain that happened right after the initial blast was contaminated with radioactive materials. This rain extended several miles from the epicenter of the bombs. However, the technology that is used today for nuclear weaponry is more advanced and powerful that what was used 75 years ago. This year, the Russian RS-28 Sarmat, commonly known as "Satan 2," was scheduled to be tested for its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities. Furthermore, even when the information disclosure of this missile is not fully accessible to everyone, it is believed that this missile has the capability of 50,000 kilotons, 7,500 percent greater than the little boy nuclear bomb. Moreover, the death toll of nuclear incidents is not only associated with the use of these two bombs nuclear disasters such as Fukushima and Chernobyl add to the millions of lives lost. 2,) For this week’s forum post I decided to talk about sarin gas, as it seems to appear more and more in the Middle East region. Its usage has also been linked to terrorist groups such as ISIS. Sarin gas is an extremely toxic nerve agent that is an odorless, colorless liquid. It can even be lethal at a very low quantity, capable of killing within a matter of minutes after inhalation. Sarin gas works by suffocating its victims due to respiratory paralysis. Even individuals who absorb a nonlethal amount can have permanent nerve damage if they are not treated immediately. Accessibility to the agent is frightening easy for a well-organized terrorist group, such as ISIS, in the Middle East region because of the fact that governments in the area have or had stockpiles of chemical weapons (example, Syria). The consequences of terrorists using chemical weapons has been seen first-hand in Raqqa, Syria when ISIS deployed the agent upon retreating Syrian forces. The reports are that ISIS obtain the sarin from Syria’s stockpile. The fact that a terror group can get their hands on such a powerful chemical weapon is quite alarming as the affects could be devastating. To give an idea of what these weapons can do we can look back to 2013 when the Assad regime .