from Alaska, to Fort Worth, Texas. During the flight three engines caught fire over British Columbia and the plane began to fall. The crew decided to drop the bomb and have it explode three thousand feet above ground. The explosion had no nuclear fallout, but rained uranium down over the coast of British Columbia. The crew then abandoned the plane. The plane was found in 1953 in northern British…
War will be the one thing that will bring humans to their knees. How we as humans reacts and handles it depends on if humanity will fall. In the book Alas, Babylon, Helen had said, “You see, all their lives, ever since they’ve known anything, they’ve lived under the shadow of war” (Frank 85). She referred to the children and how the adults have tried to prepare them for war and what comes after it, but it can have a much deeper meaning than described. A society and nation could prepare for the…
'Party Animal' Tells of Partying Too Hard James Scott A poignant but humorous affair, Party Animal deals with the dangerous personal fallout of alcoholism. Drinking takes practice. At least, that's what the protagonist in director and co-writer Adam Bowers' film Party Animal wants us to know. There are rules to the way partying, specifically partying with alcohol, should go and not following those rules is the reason behind every mishap. Raising the stakes to an almost mythical level, the chaos…
Annotated Bibliography: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons History Channel.” Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. History.com. A&E Television Networks, LLC. N.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2016 Summarize: On August 6, 1945, America dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Japan. It destroyed 90 percent of the city and killed 80,000 people. Another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 40,000 people. Japan surrendered shortly after the bombs have dropped. Assess: This source is useful because it gives an example…
fireball rises and subsequently expands as it cools, it gives the appearance of the familiar mushroom cloud. The vaporized debris, contaminated by radioactivity, falls over a vast area after the explosion subsides thus creating a deadly radioactive fallout with long-term effects. Because of the very high temperatures and pressures at ground zero, the gaseous residues of the explosion move outward. The result of these high pressures is to create a blast wave traveling several times faster than…
In the game Fallout: New Vegas, there is a built-in morality system called karma. If the player does “good” actions such as helping people, being generous, and killing “evil” characters, they would gain positive karma. On the other hand, if they stole, murdered innocent and “good” characters, and just did “bad” or “evil” things, they would gain negative karma. Most of the quests in the game reward the player with either positive or negative karma depending on the actions taken in completing the…
The fallout has decreased enough that short tours are offered of the lesser affected areas. Tours are offered daily from as low as $89, to expensive as $1,070. At maximum, the tour lasts roughly 12 hours (8am-8pm). You must wear long pants and a long sleeve shirt…
Overview of the Crank Trilogy The books that I chose to do my report on were the Crank trilogy, Crank, Glass, and Fallout, by Ellen Hopkins. Crank was published in 2004, Glass was published in 2007, and the last book, Fallout came out in 2013. Ellen Hopkins wrote these books when she had a personal experience when her daughter, Kristina, started using "the monster" after she met the wrong person. She wrote the books to help herself understand why her daughter did it, then she realized that…
especially in a time of need. Nevertheless, everyone has their own views betrayal that differ from one another. To me, betrayal is when you fail to meet the expectations of a relationship for your own personal gain. Betrayal can cause a lot of emotional fallout and baggage that goes along with it, you are able to see multiple examples of this within The Kite Runner. Another example of betrayal in the book is seen through Sanaubar abandoning Hassan and Ali. Sanaubar had a duty to both Ali and…
Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that December 7, 1941 is “a date that will live in infamy.” Two dates that will also live in infamy in regard to nuclear catastrophe are April 26, 1986 (Chernobyl) and March 11, 2011 (Fukushima). Both involve an accident at a nuclear energy facility and was rated the highest on the nuclear severity scale. Nevertheless, there was numerous differences in the causes, responses, and impact of the accident. The most prominent similarity between the Chernobyl and…