Nuclear optimism

Chernobyl and Fukushima: Two of the biggest nuclear disasters in history. When thinking about nuclear safety, the issue of a potential meltdown will always follow nuclear energy. A nuclear meltdown occurs when the nuclear reactor is unable to be cooled down and hot melted radioactive fuel can spill and be released outside the plant. The main opposition against nuclear energy lies in the danger of a meltdown. Admittedly, these disasters have caused devastating damage. In an article about the…

That day, 140,000 people died. That day, light erupted from the ground, shattering both people’s lives and the air itself. That day.. history was irrevocably changed, and the future was set into an era of dimming lights. That day, the entirety of the world was set into a new age of paranoia and fear, the fear that at any moment, they could be wiped out instantly. That day was August 6. 1945, when for the first and only time since Nagasaki, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by America.…

The first atomic bomb ever dropped was during world war II. The process in making an atomic bomb and using it was a long and difficult project that took maybe people putting in work and making big decisions. Plutonium is created when an atom of uranium-238 absorbs a neutron and becomes plutonium-239. The reactor generates the neutrons in a controlled chain reaction. There are many different opinions about the making and the use of the atomic bomb during world war two and even still today. At the…

If I were to compare myself to someone from a book, movie, or television show I would compare myself to someone who looks like me, acts like me, has close life experiences to me. That is why I chose Captain America from the movie Captain America the First Avenger. The first point I would like to make is that I look like Capitan America. We both have blonde hair and are both extremely muscular. I get told a lot that I look like Captain America. I will be walking around in alamance crossing or in…

“My part in producing the atomic bomb consisted in a single act: I signed a letter to President Roosevelt” (On the Abolition of the Threat of War). After World War II, the alliance between the two massive powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, had become rocky. Their distrust of each other had caused the beginning of the Cold War. Although it was just a series of disagreements, the Cold War was a very dangerous time period for the entire world. Because of the looming threat of atomic…

Whitakers’ theory centers on the idea that the family must be respected (Becvar & Becvar, 2012). Each family has it’s own way of dealing with things and that system is unique. A therapist cannot help a family by imposing predisposed ideology onto their unique structure. He felt that the position of the counselor was to move the family through three phases of engagement, involvement, and disentanglement. Conflict theory is based on works of Marx and Engels (White, 2008). It based on the…

William Dean Thoms was born on a cool spring day on May 9 1941; He grew up with a single mother named Eleanor (August 2 1899-January 16 1969) in Ironton MN in a two story house which had two rooms upstairs, dining room, kitchen, and one bathroom down stairs. He had one brother that was much older than him named Earl, he was in the military. William also grew up with two sisters the oldest sister was named Jacky she was born on Oct 12 1927; but on a sad day May 24th 1998; she died. William also…

The main component in Wittfogel's model is irrigation. After a society achieves large scale irrigation, they then get water scheduling, irrigation planning, labor coordination, defense of waterworks, and stable productivity. These then all branch off and the society achieves more components of a state-level society. Water scheduling leads to legal power and calendrics. This leads to legal power since there has to be people in charge in order to make sure that the system is using the correct…

Otto Hahn was a German chemist who discovered fission, fission is the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts. When Hahn discovered nuclear fission he unintentionally discovered how to create an atomic bomb. Hahn discovered nuclear fission by having a speed neutron hit a uranium atom, the uranium atom spit. When the speeding neutron hit the nucleus of the uranium atom the atom stretched until it split. Before this, Niels Bohr had a theory that a nucleus must be “like…

information gained provided U.S. leadership insight into the Soviet Union’s intentions and treasonous activities. In the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the NSA-CSS’s codebreakers and makers helped track Soviet intentions when the crisis threatened nuclear war. The NSA/CSS played a major role in the crisis by using Signals Intelligence and by gathering intelligence and providing it to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the executive branch before, during, and after…