History of nuclear weapons

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…

most hostile era in history because both the Soviet Union and the United States failed to meet eye to eye. Although there were no actual conflict between the nations, the entire world was at a brink of a nuclear war. Both nations were actively trying to discover deadlier weapons to cause fear in the other as well as cause them to back down. The nuclear arms race provided some important information, but overall it was foolish because the intent was to cause intimidation. The weapons created could…

Dangers of Nuclear Proliferation Throughout the twentieth century, countries have developed nuclear weapons technology, one of the most lethal technologies ever created. The first country to develop this technology was The United States, and it was used for the first time at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in World War II. The devastation caused by the two nuclear bombs was so catastrophic that it led to an immediate end of the six year war. Since then, the technology has proliferated to…

control of U.S. nuclear weapons is shared through the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE). A 1983 DOD-DOE Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by the secretaries of defense and energy, reaffirmed “the obligation of the DOD and the DOE to protect public health and safety provides the basic premise for dual-agency judgment and responsibility for safety, security, and control of nuclear weapons.” (The Nuclear…

with the Threat of Nuclear Wars Nuclear war is a very interesting topic. Everyone agrees that nuclear weapons are dangerous but the issue comes in with how to deal with a nuclear threat. Some debaters believe that nuclear weapons should be banned because humanity cannot survive a nuclear war. The sources I have found for these type of debaters are “Nuclear War: A Greater Threat than Ebola” and “How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: Toward An Achievable Ban on the Testing of Nuclear Weapons”. Other…

Fission was used in the original atomic bombs, and fusion is most commonly used today. This is due to the fact that the amount of energy that can be released from fission is limited, whereas fusion can theoretically release an unlimited amount of energy. Fusion is the same type of reaction that occurs on stars, thus obviously very powerful. Fusion occurs when two atoms are “fused” together and release a stray neutron. Thermonuclear bombs are much more powerful, and produce significantly greater…

scope and consequences of international warfare, as well as causing a widespread hysteria over the use of nuclear warfare that led to conflicts such as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. On August 6, 1945, the world was changed forever. On that fateful day the United States plunged the world into the chaos of nuclear warfare by dropping the first nuclear bomb in world history. The bomb brought with it an absolutely unparalleled level of destruction to the Japanese city…

risk that an extremist terrorist group, rather than a nation-state, could trigger the first nuclear war in history. This, however, is not recent news, with violent extremist organizations, such as al-Qaida, having voiced their interest in utilizing nuclear weapons against western states for well over a decade. Although this potential threat is not from a nuclear-armed state, the risk of a catastrophic nuclear attack seems to increase with each passing day. Scholars, politicians, and most…

and power when it exposed the world to its nuclear weapons through the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These bombings led to over 200,000 causalities in the area, as well as the end of World War II (Keylor). Since 1945, countries all around the world have been pushing for the creation of their own nuclear weapons. Acquiring nuclear weapons is a way that many countries believe they can protect themselves from other countries that may use nuclear weapons. Although these insecurities that other…

There is no real need for nuclear missiles, contrary to many people’s beliefs. People think they protect us, but really just put us at more risk of attack. All they really do, besides level whole metropolitan areas in a few seconds, is harbor a false sense of security for the politicians to hide behind. They state that they will protect our country with these weapons of mass destruction, but it’s all just an elaborate ploy to get innocent voters to put them in power of these armageddon machines.…