History of nuclear weapons

this topic “nuclear war” because they are afraid of it actually happening. Which it has before when he fought Hitler and other countries in the world wars. It is possible and it has happened. The reason why I picked this topic is that it was the most interesting thing in today’s news as I watched the news it made me more and more interested in it so I decided to pick it for my big topic. It interested me since it was the big thing in 2017. What will our country do if there is nuclear war? This…

Rationalist Explanations for War, written by James Fearon in 1995, provides an argumentation that launching a war is costly, thus there is an ex ante bargaining range that prompt to reach an agreement. This agreement will not only reflect the possible aftermath of a war, but also avoid the cost of it. That the two belligerent will make an agreement before the war which reflect the possible results of war is always better than a war plan. As Fearon argues that war is always ex post inefficient.…

In chapter 9 of James Rachels and Stuart Rachels The Elements of Moral Philosophy, the authors elaborate on the philosophical question, whether there are absolute moral rules. In order to illustrate the philosophical moral question, Rachels uses President Harry Truman’s dilemma on the use of atomic bombs to end World War II and in the process comes in contact with Elizabeth Anscombe, a 20th century foremost philosophical champion of the doctrine that moral rules are absolute, the theory of…

Kerlyn Garcia Professor Wilson CRWT 101 10 July 2017 Destruction and Renovations Destruction is when everything falls apart; everything dissolves and is no longer able to be used. With every destruction comes a renovation. An improvement to what has fallen apart. . The picture that caught my attention was “Spirit and Strength” by Omar Havana from the Ny Times. The image that shows collapsed buildings surrounding a young boy that walks alone in Nepal. We might ask ourselves what this means…

cost of developing it, the world will simply continue on a path of destruction and will eventually separate into dominating powers. It has been common to dismiss the danger of weapons, especially if it doesn’t directly affect you. The American society doesn’t take into consideration the danger of developing new weapons because, as they say, it is not them who fear it, it is them who use it as a threat. Orwell wrote this essay to persuade the people that the development of the atomic bomb, and…

Looking at the work from Alan Westin and the firefox plug-in light beam as a modern-day application of his message, it became clear that Westin wrote his work, Privacy and Freedom, as a form of philosophical science fiction. His work was more philosophy than science fiction as he likely had no idea of how much people would willingly give up privacy for the sake of being connected. As a prediction of where people are going, it is likely that we will continue to give up personal privacy for the…

In his essay “Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report,” as well as the afterward “The Conspiracy Industry: Afterward to PM Expanded Investigation,” James Meigs satirizes the ridiculous conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks. This essay is published in the magazine Popular Mechanics, mostly known for it’s scientific and technological articles. Therefore, this article was likely read by a relatively well educated and logical audience. Meigs wrote and revised this essay years after the…

The Holocaust and the atomic bombings were both tragic events in our nation’s history, however I believe that both were equally devastating because many lives were both tortured and lost. Even though lives were both lost and tortured in these tragic events, each event experienced different ways in which it tortured and killed people inhumanely. During the Holocaust the Nazi’s would torture and kill Jews in what were called concentration camps. Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camp,…

President Truman was elected. The first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima created such vast amount of damage that Japan quickly put together a surrender to announce. Before these were dropped the world was at a standstill. Countries claimed they had nuclear weapons pointed at the United States, the United States claimed they had bombs and missiles pointed at them. It was a messy war that everyone wanted to put an end to it and the United States did just that with two atomic bombs when one was…

There are many decades that I have thought about being a fly on the way, the 1950’s is one of that eras. I might have even dreamed of being a part of the “Happy Days” of our nation’s history. Some of the highlights of the “happy days” were more babies were being born, the economy grew including the creations of the “middle class” and there were strides made in the fight for equality. However, with progress there is always setbacks. Some of the not so happy parts of the “1950’s happy day” era…