Nuclear fallout

officials such as Secretary of War Stimson, opted to use the weapon for a variety of reasons including drawing the war to a quick end. While the U.S. ultimately used nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, other options were available for the top government and military officials to consider. After seventy years of the U.S. using these nuclear weapons, much debate still exists on whether the use of the atomic bombs was the correct decision, especially…

August 6th, 1945 will be a day never forgotten in history. The atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki will always be connected to Harry S. Truman’s presidency, and is ultimately one of the toughest decisions a president has had to make in United States’ past. Justifying the situation was even more challenging. Having to address the general public after the fact added onto the affair, and will never be an all around positive response to the decision made. There will always be questions…

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had inadvertently caused their own destruction. The act of retaliation by the United States was a double edge sword. It ended the war, but the death of some many innocent people and the threat of a nuclear attacks was a real threat, and is still a threat today. On December 7, 1945, Japan launched an attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor. The unexpected attack had terrible loss for the Americans. Around 2,000 American lives were lost in…

repercussions resulting from it that should always be taken under consideration, because the use of nuclear weapons are no joke and should not be taken lightly. Even though dropping an atomic bomb can bring a sense of security to a country in a time of war, the extreme and dangerous risks result in consequences towards many countries and the people and economies within them. An atomic bomb is a nuclear weapon that derives…

leukaemia. Among pregnant survivors, there were teratogenic effects on foetuses which resulted in birth deformities and stillbirths over the next 9 months. (World Nuclear Association, 2014) Today, the radioactivity in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is so miniscule that it is difficult to distinguish from radioactivity caused by the nuclear fallout after the explosion as opposed to underground atomic-bomb tests that were conducted around the world in past decades, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s.…

the Cold War is what we all have heard since high school history class, did atomic weapons cause the cold war, or at the very least, accelerate it? According to many historians, the Cold War was a conflict of two main objectives; the development of nuclear weapons and the fear of communism and soviet expansion. With these two key characteristics, it is only logical to say that the Cold War was a spawn of both of them combined. It began as a struggle of competing ideologies and the Stalinist view…

Introduction Our Sun produces enough energy in one second to sustain life on earth for millions of years. However, there is an energy far more powerful than our Sun that makes it pale in comparison. Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic type of light in the universe and produce more energy in one second than the sun will produce in its ten-billion year lifetime. These dramatically powerful energetic explosions often originate billions of light-years from Earth yet produce a light so…

One of the most important conflicts in the history of the United States, was actually one that involved no fighting. For the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and Russia were in a race to develop the most nuclear weapons and to spread their political beliefs around the world. This conflict is know as the Cold War. It could have been one of the deadliest and most world involved wars know to man, but thankfully there was no fighting between the two nations. However, there was…

retaliation of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Also, this event started the new cold war for the production and advancement of nuclear weapons. The atomic bomb has left many long lasting…

loving mutilated to a pulp. The bombings also affected the future generations, as many babies were born with mutations and fatal illnesses. The United States unknowingly crippled the country of Japan. As well as the future of the civilization as the fallout mutated and caused diseases to the future Japanese generations. Even the co-pilot on the Enola Gay mission over Hiroshima felt remorse for the bombing. He wrote in his log, “My god, what have we done?”. This shows that the reaction happened…