Atomic orbital

In the 1940s, the atomic bomb was undergoing development and in August of 1945, the first non-test atomic bomb was dropped by a U.S. B-29 bomber on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and another was dropped, 3 days later, in Nagasaki. Some justify the attack because it spared the lives of many American and Japanese soldiers that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan, which was the alternative to the bombings. However, the cons outweigh the pros: the bombs caused mass civilian casualties,…

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…

Each chapter is relate to the events of the various moments after the atomic explosion. In chapter one, the author mentions about six main characters. He describes about the daily activities, the relationships of the six main characters in a few minutes before the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. It also tells about the distance from the explosion to victims’ places. This part ends with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the planes in the sky. Moreover, an important detail…

Dana drifted off to sleep after coming home from Cameron's birthday party. Dana woke up in Hawaii! "Yes", “I’m in paradise" she thought, but then she had a sad realization. It was December 7, 1941, and she was on the USS Oakaholma when a huge explosion threw her off the ship. Dana, who was floating in the cool water, realized what was going on because of the book she read in history class. It was the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dana was so in shock that she could not swim to shore and saw everything…

President Truman and the United States Government had many alternatives to dropping the atomic on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The United States could take part in a land invasion of Japan in order to fight surrender out of them. Waiting for Russia to break their Japanese neutrality act and attack Japan was also a very viable option presented to Truman while he was deliberating dropping the atomic bombs. Unfortunately, there were very good reasons why both of these options were…

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack, starting before 8 a.m., lasted two hours. The Japanese flew in fighter planes and destroyed 20 naval vessels and over 300 airplanes. Nearly 2,500 American soldiers died during the attack with another 1,000 injured. This devastating attack will not be forgotten quickly. It seems that the result of this attack is all out world war. Although there have been many things leading up to this. The main…