Nuclear disarmament

Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat, said, “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” Galileo Galilei’s life was a battle against the Catholic church because he was seeking to prove an idea that was against their teachings. After years of research, Galileo came to the conclusion that the Earth revolved around the Sun. To the church, the Earth and the Pope were the center of the universe because they were made by God…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…

many different ways that societies can organize their families. In the US we seem to put most emphasis on the Nuclear family. Our extended families are very important to us but we do not seem to rely on them very heavily. This is most defiantly not the case around the world. An example would be the traditional Asian family. Traditionally the extended family shares a household with a nuclear family at the head, they share the house also with the sons and their families and the unmarried daughters…

model, the adventure of a overeating kid. Boyhood emphasize on innocence. Like Blix, most American at the time were naive about the nuclear power. Using the innocence of the main character, the film attempts to normalize the Atomic bombs. The Atomic Kid shows American people’s lack of knowledge about nuclear power and overall supportive attitude towards the nuclear testings going on in the Las Vegas desert in the 1950s. In the films, many civilians are sitting a few mile away from the testing…

The Cultural Impacts of Nuclear Events in Japan Japan has had an unfortunate history with nuclear events. The 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the recent critical incidents Fukushima in 2011 have had significant impact on the country’s culture. Japan’s unique culture also affected the way these incidents were handled and how people affected were treated. Popular media was noticeably influenced by the events of WWII as seen in the 1954 film Gojira and the 1974 manga Barefoot…

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are encased in one of the most controversial presidential decisions of America’s history. The war on the European front was coming to an end, but Japan still held a firm fighting position against the Allied Powers. With each Japanese island the U.S. Army seized control of, American casualties increased evermore. The next phase of crippling Japan’s fighting power was to invade the southern island of Kyushu, and eventually the main island of Honshu –…

Media Overview Media coverage of the Duggar family began with a one-hour special looking at the daily life for a large family: “14 and Pregnant Again.” A series of specials continuing the examination of the challenges of life for a large family followed. TLC began hosting a weekly show featuring the Duggar family in 2008; it began as “17 Kids & Counting,” progressed “18 Kids & Counting” in 2009, and has aired as “19 Kids & Counting” since 2010. Throughout the specials and the weekly…

Rising Global Issue: The Proliferation of Drones “Armed drones are starting to rule the skies,” wrote Sarah Kreps and Micah Zenko, the authors of The Next Drone Wars: Preparing for Proliferation. Armed drones are not a new concept, but the use of drones and their advantages are only now starting to be realized. The use of armed drones has several advantages; however, the proliferation of the drones, the inability to control what states use drones, and how they use drones could lead to mass…

I am living in perhaps one of the most fortunate generations thus far when it comes to information. With extensive documents, letters, recordings, and statistics from different eras in history accessible to the general public, we have the opportunity to inform ourselves of the consequences of past actions which we can use this insight by avoiding future failures and calamities in future decision making. Such events discussed in class includes the usage of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and…

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is one power technology of those attractive new energy storage technologies. It aggregated those vehicles with battery (Hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and plug- in hybrid electric vehicles) into the grid as a distributed resource of energy load, storage and generation device. It is not only adding the ability to deliver power from vehicle to the grid, but also can apply the power flow (Lund & Kempton, 2008). V2G technology provides potential solutions…