Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

One day preceding the events of December 7, 1941, an austere Franklin Delano Roosevelt gives a speech about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that had not been prognosticated by anyone. FDR spoke about the ordeal to congress hoping to sway the decision of what steps to take, towards waging war against Japan and their allies in the Axis powers. After introducing his topic, FDR announced that the Japanese Empire had been planning a long time prior to their assault on Pearl Harbor. FDR mentions…

In “Take Your Choice,” Sakyo Komatsu tells of a man who is led to believe that he is choosing his own future. The man selects not a utopia, but a future that promises nuclear holocaust. Though his decision is part of a scam that feigns time travel, the author reveals that thousands of other unknowing victims of the swindle have chosen the same cataclysmic fate. Common sense seems to dictate that choosing a future of nuclear Armageddon is nothing but a daft decision. However, in Susan Sontag’s…

Bascomb, Neal The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb. Book Critique Alvie Diaz HIST 3200 - American Government Dr. James R. Moulton 24th October 2017 Bascomb, Neal The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb. Book Critique In April 1940, Germany invaded Norway. During this time of period, World War II was going on throughout the world. The importance of the fact that Germany invaded Norway is because there was a…

Michael Nickerson ELA 10th summer reading essay Entry 1 After reading the first ten pages of “Hiroshima”, by John Hersey, I got a good view of the lives that were affected by the bombing. The main characters introduced to me were civilians, both rich and poor, who did nothing wrong. They lead normal lives all the way up to the dropping of “little boy”, however once the bomb dropped , it is apparent that their lives were never going to be the same way again. As for reviewing how good the book…

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie acts as a quintessential tip of hat to its predecessor anime series. Which is one of the most universally well-respected animated series of its time. Simply put the central plot of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie follows a terrorist bombing which releases a deadly virus to the mass population living on Mars. As a result the government has issued a 300-million woolong reward in order to capture the cold-blooded culprit that’s behind it. A legalized bounty hunter crew of the…

The Halifax Explosion was caused by a French cargo ship (Mont-Blanc) full of explosives that collided with a Norwegian vessel. It occurred in a Strait that connected the Bedford Basin to the upper Halifax Harbour. When the ships collided, a fire ignited on the French cargo ship which set the explosives off. 2000 people were killed by the blast, debris and the buildings that collapsed, and about 9,000 were injured. At 8:45 A.M., the ships were going about 1.6 to 2.4 kilometres per hour when they…

People generally tend to deceive others for the purpose of good or evil. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick sets the novel in the near future. Here, a nuclear world war, given the name World War Terminus, just concluded a few years ago in the year 2021. The destruction left behind in the aftermath leads to a radioactive dust covering Earth, killing many different kinds of life forms. The purpose of the androids that were created were to replace their human archetypes’…

Introduction A catapult is a device that was used to throw an object to a remarkable distance during war. It was used for killing enemy from a great distance. This paper will be describing the building of a model catapult and its mechanical properties. General description There were a variety of catapult of different sizes, but the catapult model, as seen in Figure 1, is about 8 inches long, 6 inches wide and 7 to 8 inches tall. The main parts of the Catapult are the arm, tension bundle and…

Night of the World” is that all adults had received the same strange dream about the world ending. This compares to how all adults who were capable of understanding the magnitude of the Cold War realized that their lives could end at any moment via an atomic bomb. The characters in Bradbury’s short story seem to reflect on this point many times throughout the piece. When the two main characters spoke about what they think other people would be doing on this last night, the husband said, “I…

was still not finished with japan, they wanted revenge for the loss of troops. Dana had no idea what it was, but her gut knew it was going to be bad. On august 6th, 1945 the United stated dropped the “little boy” on Hiroshima. Then on august 9th they dropped the “fat man” on Nagasaki. Dana was still overseas when this happened. She, saw a huge explosion and got knocked out from the shock. Later, Dana woke up in her bed it was only a dream, that’s what she thought until she saw American troops…