Manhattan Project

“The air-raid siren went off -- a minute long blast that warned of approaching planes, but indicated to the people of Hiroshima only a slight degree of danger,” Hiroshima was a city of anxiety as more and more cities in Japan had got destroyed. These air-raid sirens come on at the same time everyday and the people of Hiroshima had no idea what was coming for them. The atomic bomb was used on innocent people who, didn’t know what kind of bomb was coming, they didn’t know when or where the bomb…

“Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence,” (“Burchett”). The atomic bomb’s effects were more destructive and affected more area than any bomb had ever before. The majority of damage on the buildings of Hiroshima in a radius of two miles from where the atomic bomb was dropped by August 6, 1945, resulted from three forces: the flash burn, shock wave/airblast, and the firestorm. The first impact on…

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On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, just three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. While many historians argue about the morality of the bombs, and effect on the Japanese decision to surrender, this essay will discuss whether the Japanese had enough time to initiate a surrender in between the atomic bombings. In Japan, there are six major leaders which are required to come to a unanimous decision to bring about surrender. At the…

After the conclusion of World War II, training on the base soon came to a halt. From December of 1945 to December of 1957, the base exchanged hands between various military organizations, including the Air Materiel Command, Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command (Alexander and Arrington 1963, 332-333). Most of the activity at Wendover Air Base during those years included bomb and munitions-testing. On December 31, 1957, the base was decommissioned, with a short period of…

Tesla changed the world with the concept of wireless transmission of power and radio signals, as well as inadvertently creating the foundations for some fields in medical research. Tesla worked tirelessly on wireless transmission once he discovered he could light a fluorescent bulb (another one of his inventions) with no wires, leads, or connections to it. This phenomenon fascinated him to no end. From that day on, he dreamt of a world powered by this idea and wanted to change the world by…

President Truman and the United States justified in dropping the bombs on Japan. This is because the atomic bomb saved thousands American lives along with, believe it or not, Japanese lives. Quite obviously, if the war between the U. S. and Japan went on, both sides would have lost a lot of lives. From the scheduled two land invasions in and other battles that could have occurred as well. It is estimated that more than 80 million more Japaneses and many American lives would have been lost…

THE COVENTRY BLITZ I set out to discuss whether or not it was ethical for the prime minister of Britain (Winston Churchill) to let the Luftwaffe attack Coventry, when he knew they would be attacked. On the evening of 14 November 1940, 300 German bombers dropped 500 tons of explosives, 33,000 combustible bombs and several parachute mines on the industrial city of Coventry. Fire-fighters managed to put out the first fires but other hits trailed the first and rapidly new fires broke out causing a…

The video I chose was a Ted Talks video with scientists James Hansen who spoke out about climate change. James Hansen has written and published many articles and books about climate change and also worked with NASA for a period of time to help developed an experiment to fly to Venus. James Hensen's climate observations truly began in 1981 when he joined other scientists to analyze and publish an article in a science magazine that observed that the earth was warming 0.4 degrees Celsius in the…

Lise Meitner might be the most important scientist you have never heard of. Many consider her to be the most important female scientist of the 20th century. This essay will look at meitner’s life and discoveries. Examine each of her major discoveries. All her discoveries helped boost mankind into the future. Lise Meitner was one of the few women scientists of her time. She studied physics and chemistry, and she did research and experiments. She discovered new information and things. She…