Nuclear weapon

have relentlessly worked to fortify their defenses and protect the citizens. Impressive advances in technology and military weapons from the brilliant minds of scientists have only augmented the strength of nations against deadly attacks. Concerned for the nuclear research conducted in Germany, the United States of America worked tirelessly to make a breakthrough in nuclear fission research before any other country. This resulted in a government project which became codenamed “The Manhattan…

Americans during the time of the war thought it was necessary. Now, they believe there could have been another solution and that nuclear weapons should not be used indiscriminately again. President Barack Obama neither apologized nor justified the attack when he mourned the victims of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park but, instead, focused on a non-nuclear future (Lee, Carol E., and Alexander Martin). The victims of Hiroshima said that it took courage for Obama to visit…

George W. Bush became president in the US January 2001; Bush first foreign policy in the Middle East was how to contain the Saddam regime in regards to weapon of mass destruction. The Bush administration and UN work together to put sanctions on Iraq and keep the regime on check. However, the Bush government claimed the UN sanction on Iraq was weak and ineffective therefore, the Secretary of State Colin Powell initiated a new proposal known as “ smart sanctions” as economic sanction that will…

From the period of 1949 to 1963, the Arms race was a period were there which saw two superpowers the USA and the USSR increasing their nuclear technology developments. The arms race ultimately prevented tensions from escalating into an actual fully fledged war. On the other hand there were de-stabilising factors that put both countries on the brink of nuclear warfare and the world at risk of annihilation, such as the pressure of domestic politics, hot wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the Cuban…

It was a decision that was made with complete acknowledgement of the power of nuclear energy and the consensus of the Allied Powers. The United States, as I previously mentioned, were aware of the strength of the atomic bomb. This is because they had tested a much smaller form in New Mexico, which alone had an incredible impact.…

a second. This type of weapon is known as a “Weapon of Mass Destruction” or a WMD. It can range from atomic or nuclear weapons to chemical and biological weapons. According to ProCon.com, there are currently 26 countries with WMD programs and there are many other countries that are suspected to have them…

drop the nuclear bombs, the primary one must have been terminating the war avoiding additional U.S. losses. Japan was a part of the Axis, a military alliance with Germany and Italy created in September 1940. During 1941, America became more and more involved with the nations fighting the Axis. President Franklin D.…

Like most American citizens, we were educated that the U.S. released nuclear bombs to end WWII with Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These were used to save both American and Japanese lives. The United States believed, forcing Japan to surrender with atomic weapons was the way to go! The dropping of these bombs had three major benefits to the use of nuclear weapons. First, it instantaneously stopped the war. This war could have been dragged on for months or even years. The Asian civilians were dying at…

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…

The end of the second World War was caused by the United States of America dropping two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The introduction of a new weapon that killed a total of 80,000 people in Hiroshima and 70,000 people in Nagasaki instantly scared the Soviet Union, so they started to develop nuclear weapons. And today Russia and the United States have the most dangerous weapons ever known. In 1939, Allied scientists discovered that German scientists had…