Nuclear weapon design

Nazi Germany was a scientific powerhouse. It invented many weapons during World War II, and employed many of Germany’s great intellectual minds. Much of the work done was intended for terrible things and most of the work done was at the expense of others. Still there is no denying that it was still great work. The men who performed this work were highly trained, highly educated and highly intelligent scientists of all kinds. Before the war they worked in the private sector and in universities.…

Today many consider the Cuban Missile Crisis to be the closest the Cold War ever got to escalating to an all-out nuclear war. In July of 1962 Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev responded to American Jupiter ballistic missiles placed in Italy and Turkey by placing nuclear missiles in Cuba just 90 miles off United States shores. Cuban leader Fidel Castro was eager to ally himself with the Soviet Union due to the previous failed American Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. President Kennedy discovered…

President Truman made the decision to drop an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, hoping to end the war faster and to save lives. The war in the Pacific, including Iwo Jima was extremely bloody and cost many lives. A lot of things led to the bomb in Hiroshima including Manhattan project which was the making of the bomb and the bombing of the first bomb in Alamogordo. Many people suggested the atomic bomb with hopes of ending the war sooner and to save lives. However, many people…

made would be vital in the way that the crisis played out, and if he had made just a couple more mistakes, then a nuclear war might’ve started. But what the American citizens did not know at the time was that his decisions were based more off of his personal experiences rather than off the information from his advisory council. Both him and Khrushchev “almost blundered into a nuclear war through the crisis management approaches of their advisory systems, but then managed to extricate themselves…

One of the most well known, most destructive devices ever employed is the nuclear bomb. Developed by physicists working on the Manhattan Project in WWII, this atomic bomb is the equivalent of detonating thirty million pounds of TNT (Chow). Although these bombs have only been used twice in history during 1945, many countries have now rushed to gain this technology. Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and have the technology to enforce them (Technology of War). Not only can we attack…

World War I and II both were concentrated on the weaponry. World war I introduced “machine guns, modern artillery and railroads” to the nineteenth century. World War II took a lot of ideas from World War I and intensified them. They also created nuclear weapons, which only were used in World War II. Collectively, these periods are crucial for how the world is shaped…

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, respectively, was, simply put, a foolish, rash, and depraved action that could be classified as a diplomatic blunder, among other things; certainly it could not be seen as either a military necessity or a scientific experiment: for scientists already knew enough about their project to determine the consequences, at least in the short term, such that if the dropping was an experiment, it was the most morally depraved one…

radiation exposure. Three days later a second deployed bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated, forty thousand people. With these bombings, thousands of civilians were, brutally without warning, killed in an attempt to end the war. A new nuclear weapon was introduced to the world which changed the way wars were fought. The ash cloud produced could be seen from miles away: “As the first mushroom floated…

Without the American home front helping there is no way that the Allies could have won WWII. As significant to the war as it was, it also helped change some things here too. The home front helped win the war, diminish some racism issues, and develop technology and the economy. After Pearl Harbor, the country worked together across the board to make sure that we won against Japan and the rest of the Axis powers. The able men healthy enough to help the army enlisted in huge numbers. The ones left…

In the last century, humanity had faced many wars, economic crisis, and natural disasters that have destroyed people’s lives. One of the most notable and famous event in the last century is the drop of atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Although, not all events were caused by man-kind, events that have forever changed the lives of others were caused by people. People, who have caused the events, cope negatively with guilt in order to try to see themselves innocently as they were once before. This can be…