Nuclear warfare

The Manhattan Project was a secret military project created to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Germany would build and use such a weapon during World War II caused the start of the Manhattan Project which was originally in Manhattan, New York. By the summer of 1945, they were ready test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. President Harry S. Truman was warned by his…

The Atomic bombs and President Truman’s decision to use them will always be up for debate. From the political standpoint it was the right thing to do for the survival of America’s troops and America. Hindsight is 20/20 and looking back on what has happened in the past and deciding whether it was right or wrong is impossible. President Truman was faced with a tough decision, end the war quickly with less loss of American life or face an invasion of Japan that could have killed a million US…

When the Soviet Union acquired the bomb in 1949 had changed the way the U.S. viewed the nuclear arms race between themselves and the USSR. In response to the overwhelming news regarding Russia building a small atomic bomb, the U.S created NATO. The United States had realized that they were by no means invincible regarding their advances in american technology. The Suez Crisis, NATO and the Warsaw Pact were some events demonstrating the struggling relations between the U.S and The Soviet Union.…

From TV shows to textbooks, I have heard about the importance of air resistance ad nauseam. Mythbusters taught me about how air resistance prevents pennies dropped from the Empire State Building in New York from killing innocent people. My textbook taught me about the importance of drag in preventing Felix Baumgartner from reaching speeds that would physically break him. However, throughout my entire physics career, air resistance was never included in projectile motion. The concept of…

American nuclear testing throughout the text and exposes governmental secrets uninhibited and untouched by the world. The book begins with at the nuclear testing grounds in Las Vegas, where a series of grand nuclear explosions engulfed the city and effect many families and communities during the 1950s-1960s time period of American history. One specific individuals that was affected was a woman named Selah a mother of conjoined twins who were affected by the radioactive effects of the nuclear…

1. The novel begins in Nazca, Peru, in the year 454 BCE, as a mysterious creature commands native Peruvians who worship him to bury themselves alive along with a mysterious object that continuously bleeds without stopping. Then, in the year 2006, Todd Maddox is hired by Richard Ridley to work in his company Manifold Genetics as a researcher of human regeneration, mainly focusing on the Hydra, a mythological creature that Hercules fought during the second of his nine trials. Then, archaeologist…

Have you ever heard of the Manhattan Project? Well, the Manhattan Project was a project during World War 2, to build a nuclear weapon. President Truman briefly discussed the idea with Joseph Stalin. There were advantages and disadvantages to the way Truman broke the news to Stalin. In the Secretary of State James Byrnes' versions, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's version, and President Truman's version, they noted that that Stalin lacked emotion once President Truman mentioned it to…

Atomic Bomb The congregation of the Atomic Bomb is possibly one of the greatest moments of triumph in American history. When president Truman decided to drop the A-bomb, he had to think very carefully about his decision. Truman was morally, politically, and strategically right in dropping the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The time is 1945, WWII. The ETO is wrapping up and finishing, but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we…

The United States and Britain were not justified in bombing cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Pforzheim, Darmstadt, and Kassel which were bombed in Germany with a casualty rate anywhere from 10,000 in Kassel to 42,600 in Hamburg(OME). The USAAF and the RAF used strategic bombing in destroying what they believed to be military strong points, like industrial factories and military bases. The U.S believed that this would shorten the war by destroying all of there resources, the British…

I was born on February 28, 2001 in Kilmarnock, Virginia. I have a younger step-sister, Jolie and a little sister, Keira. When I was born I had a single mom working in Williamsburg, while my grandparents took care of me at home and an immature father cleaning pools in California. *Insert parent interview! However, my birth was not the only exciting thing to occur on this day. On February 28, in 1944 test pilot Reitsch pitched a suicide squad to Hitler, in 1953 Watson and Crick discovered chemical…