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    The best way to sum up the sixties is that it was an era with a multitude of ideological clashes. Americans were split on issues such as race, gender, and sexual orientation while the world was divided between Capitalism and Communism. These views can be found in American pop culture, especially literature. Themes such as gender equality, racial equality, anti-war sentiment, technological advancements, and religion can be found in literary pieces during the 1960s. On August 18, 1920, the 19th…

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    Weapons upsurge and military expenditure rose drastically during Reagan’s early years, in efforts to protect Americans in the event of a nuclear altercation with the Soviets. However, the nature of such an altercation was exposed to result in toxic, hostile environments unsuitable for all life and every nation. In addition to this discovered conclusion on nuclear conflict, the Soviets welcomed a novel leader, Gorbachev, into office in 1985. Gorbachev’s policies were innovative and centered on…

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    They’re lots of post apocalyptic movies Out there. One of these is Carol Amens “last Testament”. This is the story of a small town that survives a nuclear attack ,and how the people in this town deal with the fallout. Another good apocalyptic movie is “dawn of the Dead” The story of some people who have to survive the zombie apocalypse in a mall in Minnesota. These are two different movies with two different types of apocalypses, but while these two moviess are very different they are also very…

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    cleaning the environment from these chemicals can be costly. The Army Corps of Engineers were also in charge of the Manhattan Project. The goal of this mission was to create nuclear weapons and the operation was set up in Oak Ridge. After building the bomb, Americans decided to test the bomb and Trinity was the name of the first nuclear test. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Japan to surrender and end the war. After the war, Americans weren’t satisfied. They saw weapons as tool of…

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    World War 3 the nuclear war Backstory Year 2030, President Harmony Clifton was at her desk reading her schedule for the week. Little did she know that a foreign surprise was coming to take over the world starting with her first . The foreign surprise was the leader of North Korea, Zorga Zang. His idea of ruling the world by starting a third world war by nuclear annihilation. He plans to raise an army of Zorganons (zombie like creatures that were born by nuclear explosion) to take over the…

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    radiation exposure. Three days later a second deployed bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated, forty thousand people. With these bombings, thousands of civilians were, brutally without warning, killed in an attempt to end the war. A new nuclear weapon was introduced to the world which changed the way wars were fought. The ash cloud produced could be seen from miles away: “As the first mushroom floated…

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    Should the United States have conducted nuclear bomb testing at Bikini Atoll? No. The bombs destroyed the land, killed many lives on the land, showed lack of integrity as a world leader. Therefore, America should not have tested the atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll. The bomb making many people and animal face death ‘’Some species began to have extinct in the area.Australian scientist says he don’t know what to respect, but it was incredible’’. In article say the bomb kill living things on the…

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    Invisible Yet Deadly

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    which might spread throughout all the uranium present (Rinkesh). This fission reaction showed a lot of potential, and since the discovery of nuclear fission, scientists around the globe have developed different yet effective methods of harnessing the energy produced by the radiation ushered in an era commonly known as the atomic age. For military use, nuclear energy could be used to create atomic bombs. The trinity test and the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 to end World War 2…

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    wind power are among the most commonly cited solutions, but there is another alternative. Nuclear power, an emission-free and efficient source of energy, should be strongly considered as an alternative to fossil fuels. Nuclear power is often unfairly maligned and…

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    Atomic Bomb Effects

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    known as the end of World War II, and also the only time that the military used nuclear bombs in wartime. The bombs not only impacted world history, but also caused the American public to feel uncertainty regarding the implications of nuclear physics and radiation and how using this scientific knowledge impacts daily life. In 1937, Ernest Rutherford published The Newer Alchemy, a book written about his work with nuclear physics and radiation. At the time, the public thought that radiation was…

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