Nuclear proliferation

Arguments against the “clash of civilizations” (CoC) theory have been made by authors such as Chiozza, Henderson and Tucker. According to these authors, civilizational factors alone are insufficient in producing greater risk of conflict. Other factors such as regime-type, geographical proximity, modernization, military capabilities, Cold war blocs, and major power status affect the prospects for conflict involvement between states as well. I will focus on regime-type, geographical proximity and…

term solutions, their unreliable, inefficient, and expensive technologies make them unusable to reach the 2050 goals. To reach the desired carbon goal, countries around the world need to invest in nuclear power because it provides an efficient, sustainable, and growable future. In…

America dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima killing around 80,000 people and wiping out 90% of the city. 71 years later President Barack Obama, payed tribute to the victims of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial located in Japan. The president also prepared a speech. Obama’s speech outlined the effects of nuclear weapons and the amount of power a country has over these deadly weapons. The idea of nuclear weapons has always been a controversial debate. Some people see the use in nuclear…

the Soviet Union alike threatened each other with nuclear weapons as they raced for power. People all over the world feared of intentional as well as accidental mass destruction from those nuclear weapons. President Kennedy knew people were afraid of what the nuclear age would bring and that division was a global problem, so by using compelling diction as well as anaphora, he hoped to inspire the nation to bring peace and unity during the nuclear age. President Kennedy’s compelling diction…

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…

the Chernobyl disaster, it can be examined that a minor design flaw caused a terrific disaster just through a simple test. According to the World Nuclear Association, “A peculiarity of the design of the control rods caused a dramatic power surge as they were inserted into the reactor.” (World Nuclear Association, 2016). As horrifying as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is, in contrast, it can be compared to many other disasters such as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster. The Tacoma Bridge disaster…

If I were to try to put Ann Thein into categories from our first interview, she would be a first generation immigrant, an extremely active 75 year old retiree, and a person whose family is never far from her mind. However, just assigning labels doesn’t do her justice. She and her family came to the United States in 1948 when she was only seven years old, but it’s clear that “immigrant” is not a term she would use immediately to describe herself because she has very much accepted the values one…

The city of Hiroshima is a modern day metropolitan area. The history of this city was a dark and dreary one. 70 years, this modernized city was devastated by an attack that went down in history. On August 6, 1945 the United States of America, dropped a bomb on the city of Hiroshima. “A device that harnesses the basic power of the universe.” This is how Truman described the atomic bomb. This was a machine that left a catastrophic effect on the people of Hiroshima. Even though there was…

United States definitely fail to evaluate and consider the outcomes of an atomic assaulting. In the narrative film White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007), four Americans that were working straightforwardly with the nuclear bombings on Japan was met. One of them…

When ones first thought of Japan is sushi, it usually is not far off from a typical American. In the 1940’s Americans were thinking about what to do about those “Commi Japs” out east. Ever since they bombed Pearl Harbor, no American could get the Japanese off his or her mind and it led us into a hard rough next few years fighting World War II. Germany was tough, but fighting Japan was the real challenge, mostly because of their armies mindset, which was never surrender. So they would go in guns…