Plutonium

Due to the nature of technology, many parallels exist between the atomic bomb and new and emerging technologies. Thus, all of the decisions regarding the development and implementation of contemporary technologies should be informed by those decisions made in the 1940’s concerning the atomic bomb. These decisions demonstrate the importance of being inclusive in discussions, considering the of impacts before development begins, having an existing problem that needs to be solved, and restricting…

The Trinity by Johnathan Fetter-Vorm depicts the history of the making and drop of the first atomic bomb created during the World War Two era. Fetter-Vorm effectively creates a highly crafted argument that is designed to elicit a response from the readers while illustrating an unbiased and educational story. He challenges the people of the future to remember the previous mistakes of the past so that they will not follow in the footsteps of the ones before them. Fetter-Vorm’s use of specific…

On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a powerful and emotional speech in west Berlin, Germany. This speech was addressing the Berlin Wall, and all of the political issues that came with it. 26 years prior to Reagan’s speech, the Berlin wall was built to separate the communist East from the “Allied” west, this wall was extremely controversial and kept any people from leaving west Berlin without great difficulty. Reagan’s speech had immense impact on Berlin, 2 years after…

“Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm. “Harry S Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb” reports the reasoning behind President Truman’s choice to use the atomic bomb in World War II. Truman had four choices: conventional bombings, ground invasion, demonstration of the bomb on an unpopulated area, and bombing a populated area. The conventional bombing had already been tried, and it was not effective, so that…

The United States is the only country that used a nuclear weapon in a war. Both atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. The Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima and the Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. It all started with President Roosevelt in 1939, when Roosevelt authorized the Manhattan Project, a secret project to expand research on nuclear fission to make nuclear weapons. Truman then became president when Roosevelt died in 1945. With the war still going on, Truman gave Japan one final warning, which…

ISOTOPE EXPERIMENT- BEANIUM Introduction This beanium experiment was performed to display a greater understanding of isotopes of an element. Atoms that belong to the same element with the same number of protons but differ in numbers of neutrons are called isotopes. Since the atomic mass of a element includes the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the element, It can be said that isotopes would have a different mass. Heavier isotopes tend to react more slowly than…

What does non-proliferation and disarmament in the discussion on nuclear weapons, mean? Nuclear weapon is an explosive device that is used as a disinfectant such as is happening in Palestine now. It stems from the destructive power supplied from nuclear reactions whether he fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Since the enactment of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these explosive weapons used more than two thousand times for tests and demonstrations. Due to these highly…

Peter H. Brothers in the article, “Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla,” asserts that Godzilla, the dramatic, King-Kong like, sci-fi movie, was a result of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author supports his claim by adding history of WWII, information about Toho Studios and about the life of the director, Ishirȏ Honda. Brothers also includes books and films that influenced the making of Godzilla. The purpose of this piece is to explain the…

Argumentive Essay Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War? Many people have been arguing this topic for years. But were they really justified? You decide. First off, if you know nothing about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then I will give you the history of how it all started, and then maybe you can have an easier time to decide if the US was justified. From the start of the first war in 1939 American scientist, and many of them were…

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