Nuclear disarmament

reactors, causing a nuclear accident on March 11th 2011 that would reintroduce to the world the question of “Should the use of nuclear energy continue?” Fukushima and many other critical junctures since the start of the first nuclear reactor in Idaho, in December 1951, have influenced changing attitudes towards nuclear energy throughout time. Nuclear power is one of the primary sources of energy, it provided over 19% of the total electrical output in the United States alone. (World nuclear…

The 20th century possesses an event that will forever be regarded as one of the most controversial decisions in all of history. The nod to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, then subsequently to drop the second atomic bomb over Nagasaki is a contentious subject that has been observed and referred to well into today’s 21st century. In my historiographical essay I will chronologically examine secondary sources and interpret how views on the event have changed over time. The atomic bomb…

High Performing Team: The Manhattan Project For a team to become high performing, it must have certain quantifiable characteristics. Among them are a reason, purpose, and sense of urgency. The Manhattan Project Team had and utilized all three of these criteria. In 1939, World War was raging in Europe as the Nazi Party was sweeping across the continent in search of global domination. Two refugee scientists, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, sent a letter to President Roosevelt warning him that…

The Day America Detonated Cruel Bombs To most Americans Pearl Harbor was awful. 2,500 people dead, 1,000 more wounded, 18 American ships destroyed, and 300 airplanes destroyed. Pearl Harbor was awful, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were worse. Soldiers killing soldiers is war, Soldiers killing innocent civilians is murder. That is exactly what the U.S. did on August 6, 1945. They dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan. The first one, named Little Boy, resulted in the initial deaths of…

of its nuclear capabilities has seen heightened debate on whether a deal has the power to do so. Through a span of twelve years, this deal, most commonly referred to as the Iran deal, has seen negotiations with the five major members of the U.N. Within this deal there is a desire to eliminate the possibility for Iran to create nuclear weapons; by confiscating crucial necessities to the process plutonium and uranium, as well as implementing the supervision of U.N. officials at their nuclear…

security affairs, nuclear weapons, and the globalizing world. Due to inherent interests of states, countries around the world will pursue realist gains over liberal values. Firstly, material and power…

Capulet is now forcing Juliet to marry Paris and even though Juliet disagrees to the wedding Capulet will not take no for an answer. The wedding is set on Thursday. Juliet been desperate and unwilling to marry any other than Romeo seeks out the Friar for counselling. A potion is given to Juliet and she is to take it Wednesday night. Yet again fate puts a twist in the story as Capulet exclaims excitedly, "I'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning." (IV.2.24) Thus moving the wedding day forward…

In 1945, the United States made a fateful decision: to drop not just one, but two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These decisions would spur debate amongst historians for the next sixty-nine years and will most likely continue to do so for some time. One historian, J. Samuel Walker, wrote a book on the topic entitled Prompt & Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. This publication examines the decision-making process followed when the…

mentioned of a new field of physics that was showing that the element uranium could undergo nuclear fission, with the resultant release of a remarkable deal of energy. Ever since the Greek man named Democritus stated in the year of 450 B.C. that everything in existence is made of atoms, ever since then scientist have been working to figure out what an atom is exactly. Einstein described the probability that a nuclear reaction could be produced and the possibility of the construction of…

In the days before industrialization, climate change, carbon emissions and rising temperatures were not global issues. Back then, people were concerned more with the Bubonic plague or the Crusades, instead of their EVs and solar roofs. But obviously, the times have changed. In the mid-eighteenth century, also known as the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, there were roughly 700 million people on the Earth, compared to estimates of over seven billion in 2015 (McLamb). Much of the economic…