Nuclear weapon

The USSR was rapidly developing their own nuclear weapon, modelled after Oppenheimer's work, to use against America. There was “mutually assured destruction” guaranteed between the two global superpowers with the hypothetical use of this weapon. “Understanding clearly what he had wrought and terrified by the future this augured, he later struggled for international control of nuclear weapons and fought to prevent development of the hydrogen bomb” (Kuznick). He was…

lectures discussed that during the Cold War era, American society is on the edge of nuclear war, where the ideology of never letting the “reds” win prevails over the idea of possible world annihilation. Nuclear technology casted a whole new approach for a future war. Massive retaliation established the idea in the US to reconcile Cold War aims with a defensive and security strategy by placing emphasis on nuclear weapons. At any time and place of its choice, the US would be willing to respond to…

The Cultural Impacts of Nuclear Events in Japan Japan has had an unfortunate history with nuclear events. The 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the recent critical incidents Fukushima in 2011 have had significant impact on the country’s culture. Japan’s unique culture also affected the way these incidents were handled and how people affected were treated. Popular media was noticeably influenced by the events of WWII as seen in the 1954 film Gojira and the 1974 manga Barefoot…

determining interstate conflict behavior. Under decision-theoretic deterrence theory, it is believed that nuclear war is a costly endeavor that only an unreasonable actor would contemplate it as a means to resolve conflict. This theory looks at interstate conflict and goes to prescribe solutions as to how states must act once presented with conflicts that don’t end in the usage of nuclear weapons. Under this theory of deterrence there is strategic uncertainty because you can never be certain of…

The Cold War: History and Advancements The Cold War still has great affects till this day be-cause of the conflicts between the countries that were in-volved, and the making of weapons that were used as threats to threaten other countries. Also the end results of the war which still continues till this day. Capital democracies such as the United States where peo-ple have a choice on how they and everyone has an equal amount of say about the decisions that affect their lives. Capitalism…

II. What if the country that began the war, also ended the war? What if Germany had actually tried to develop a nuclear weapon? This would undoubtedly change the war, but would it change the outcome? A brilliant German scientist, Otto Hahn, discovered nuclear fission in December of 1938. A German scientist living in Germany discovered nuclear fission but they never developed a nuclear bomb even though they had the advantage? There are several factors attributed to why they did not develop…

Over the past several years, North Korea has focused largely on military and nuclear weapon development, and this year they are beginning to test multiple types of nuclear missiles. In particular, they successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile that accurately traveled 400 kilometers on April 23rd, 2016 (Cook, 1). Tensions between North Korea and the US continue to rise, and concerns about a potential conflict and contingency plans are understandably high. The U.S. has made sure…

animals to extinction from poaching. The previous mentioned are just some of the many human vices that we can conflict upon ourselves and others. The damages of vices, such as pollution, can be extreme. For example, because of pollution from the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Russia the land is now inhabitable. However, even though our causation of pollution and causing animals to become extinct are two of important and sad human vices, the way that humans are able to cause wars are what is our…

” North Korea wants to take over the world of the world, but the U.S. and many other countries are preventing this, so North Korea threatens a nuclear attack. North Korea is a threat to the U.S. and the rest of the world because they keep themselves isolated, they’re willing to hurt anyone in order to maintain control and, North Korea own Nuclear weapons. To begin, North Korea keeps themselves isolated from the rest of the world. Jiro Ishimaru says,“A barbed wire fence has been installed. It's…

When the atom bomb was invented by the United States the people believed that it would be a savior to the war that was occurring, but fate would have the bomb be a global phenomenon as the world stood in awe of its catastrophic power. Having such a weapon that would most certainly win the war for your country was an amazing thought, and of course many country’s believed that too, which inevitably led to the cold war. What were to follow was a race to develop these bombs many of the world’s…