islands as pit stops in order to get closer to Japan. Island-hopping would prove to be too dangerous and a quicker method to end the war would be developed under the Manhattan project. This being the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb would be a “weapon of mass destruction,” constructed with scientist J Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves, the two primary leaders of the Manhattan project. The first atomic bomb would be tested on July 16th, 1945, it proved fruitful. All that was left at this…
It becomes difficult to stop foreign countries from producing more nuclear weapons when there is little international support for preventive actions as the author states, “Preventive actions could disrupt a country’s nuclear program before any weapons were produced…But there would be little international support...as it would be resisted by those governments that saw it as issuing a license to the United States…
The announcement that particularly strikes me the most what Ex 2: 24 “So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” This particular passage strikes me the most because God didn’t forget his people, hearing their cries for help to set them free from bondage. God could have easily ignored their groaning, but remember his promise with those before the Israelites he took notice of them. This passage implies that God was for the poor because it was the…
When the atom bomb was invented by the United States the people believed that it would be a savior to the war that was occurring, but fate would have the bomb be a global phenomenon as the world stood in awe of its catastrophic power. Having such a weapon that would most certainly win the war for your country was an amazing thought, and of course many country’s believed that too, which inevitably led to the cold war. What were to follow was a race to develop these bombs many of the world’s…
innocent people for political purposes” (White, 2014, p. 4). Since the sarin attack on the Japanese subway in 1995, governments are taking measures to prevent and respond to terroristic attacks utilizing chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapons (CBRN). Robyn Pangi identifies that chemical attacks, such as the one committed by the Aum Shinrikyo (Aum) in Japan, are different from conventional terroristic attacks because the effects of the attack can be reduced due to interventions made…
In World War II, America expanded military tactics and extremity of weapons that would change the world forever. As early as the beginning of the war, brilliant minds such as Albert Einstein advised President Truman on creating a nuclear bomb. (“Nuclear Bomb”) This bomb was meant to be the most powerful weapon ever used in military history. The Manhattan Project was the codename for America 's research in trying to create the world 's first atomic bomb. Once America succeeded in this discovery,…
More than thirteen years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq in March of 2003. This contentious decision has forever shifted U.S. foreign policy thus creating problems that will not be repaired easily, if at all. What grew into a full-blown war finally ended after Obama’s decision to bring troops back to the U.S., however the effects of the war are prominently evident in Iraq. The lack of any complete resolution for Iraq and its people has left many citizens of the United States,…
and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was clear when Khrushchev agreed to defend Cuba with Soviet weapons, and with that the importation of nuclear Soviet weapons into Cuba began. Kennedy was clear to announce that nuclear weapons would not be tolerated in Cuba, and stated the US would respond to any Cuban attack with all-out nuclear retaliation. In response to the increased Soviet ships coming with weapons, JFK ordered a blockade, which he called quarantine because a blockade is an act of war,…
The role of militarism in the construction of masculinity requires men to overplay their virility, where hegemonic masculinity expects men to act in an aggressive manner and normalizes their violent mindset, “Link between weapons, masculinities and violence…,” (Theidon, 2009, pg. 420). Men’s value is measured by their physical strength where failing to so result with them being label as a fag or wimp to immaculate them where, “Words are also used to impugn someone’s masculinity…
Introduction and Thesis For the past century, since its entry into the first World War in 1917, the United States has periodically intervened militarily in other nations because there is no democratically elected supranational government to police the world, the default principle guiding thinking about military intervention has been national sovereignty, or self-determination. Countries should not interfere in the affairs of other countries. However, few have believed that this principle should…