Nuclear warfare

The Trinity by Johnathan Fetter-Vorm depicts the history of the making and drop of the first atomic bomb created during the World War Two era. Fetter-Vorm effectively creates a highly crafted argument that is designed to elicit a response from the readers while illustrating an unbiased and educational story. He challenges the people of the future to remember the previous mistakes of the past so that they will not follow in the footsteps of the ones before them. Fetter-Vorm’s use of specific…

On the 12th of June, 1987, President Ronald Reagan delivered a powerful and emotional speech in west Berlin, Germany. This speech was addressing the Berlin Wall, and all of the political issues that came with it. 26 years prior to Reagan’s speech, the Berlin wall was built to separate the communist East from the “Allied” west, this wall was extremely controversial and kept any people from leaving west Berlin without great difficulty. Reagan’s speech had immense impact on Berlin, 2 years after…

Imagine loud crashes and destruction all happening in a single second, causing your world to blur in one moment, did you know before that you were about to suffer the worst of all types of pain? The lives of your family were beyond what you could do, they laid motionless and few ashes remain of a few people. That’s how many innocent lives would live today if we had never taken these Atomic bombs seriously. Atomic bombs have been created but only legalized in wars because they are so dangerous to…

Millions of people die each year due to Cancer and AIDS, if this could be prevented simply by trading 3,000 involuntary humans to aliens for tortuous and lethal medical experiments, would it be morally justifiable? Depending on the different ethical approaches, the answer to this may vary. John Stuart Mill, a utilitarian, believed that good comes from human pleasure and that an act should benefit the majority of society for it to be good. Immanuel Kant studied deontology and believed that good…

The United States is the only country that used a nuclear weapon in a war. Both atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. The Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima and the Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. It all started with President Roosevelt in 1939, when Roosevelt authorized the Manhattan Project, a secret project to expand research on nuclear fission to make nuclear weapons. Truman then became president when Roosevelt died in 1945. With the war still going on, Truman gave Japan one final warning, which…

empower any substantive modification to political opinion, such as The Candidate (558). Yet, the authors described a potentiality for television to change under-developed opinion within The Day After (559). The films narrow scope, the aftermath of nuclear war, had the possibility of not only serve to raise consciousness regarding the issue, but also increase a viewers’ concern…

Alas, Babylon, the theme is survival and isolation because can you imagine one’s town being cut off from the rest of the world? In Alas Babylon, the town of Fort Repose is isolated from the rest of the world and they have to learn to survive after a nuclear weapon hits. People have to change who they are because if they do not change, survival is not possible. A good way of putting the situation is, “So the struggle was not against a human enemy, or for victory. The struggle, for those who…

V-E Day had come and gone. Two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan. The Cold War had sprung up out of the Soviet Union’s paranoia of the spread of capitalism. Spain had just barely escaped developing into an autocracy. Needless to say, the world was changing in 1949, and, in some eyes, it was taking a turn for the worse. Many nations either chose to turn a blind eye to the resurgence of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and Asia or merely succumbed to its wrath, becoming just an…

Peter H. Brothers in the article, “Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla,” asserts that Godzilla, the dramatic, King-Kong like, sci-fi movie, was a result of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author supports his claim by adding history of WWII, information about Toho Studios and about the life of the director, Ishirȏ Honda. Brothers also includes books and films that influenced the making of Godzilla. The purpose of this piece is to explain the…

who is right and wrong during the aftermath of a supposed nuclear holocaust. The Chrysalids, which is a book written by John Wyndham in 1955, tells a story that is unique, because throughout, it can be unclear who the reader should be rooting for. Waknuk and Sealand seem to be the most civilized communities thriving after the Tribulations, but their views differ in many ways. Both communities could potentially be the cause of a second nuclear holocaust, but it is more likely that Waknuk would be…