Nuclear weapon

obtained actual war plans of World War II. German and Soviet leaders saw these and essentially prepared to use defensive plans for their first strike. It may have been the closest moment to nuclear war since the 1962 Cuban missile. Soviet’s suspected that exercises being done was just a cover for a surprise nuclear attack from the United…

presidential candidate Hilary Clinton recently spoke at the Brookings Institution about the implementation of the Obama Administration’s Iran Nuclear War Deal. Clinton uses the statis theory to state her position on a highly debated political issue on foreign policy. The Iran nuclear deal is an agreement led by the United States that sets limitations for Iran’s nuclear program. Clinton starts by stating that she supports the deal but the goes on to state that she supports the deal “as part of a…

On August 6, 1945, the American bomber, Enola Gay dropped a single bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was an atomic bomb, a weapon developed in the United States in great secrecy. This was followed by, a bombing on Nagasaki which took place a few days later. The event of the bombings ended the biggest catastrophe in the world known as World War II. The bombings led to hundreds of thousands of death but in return saved the world from a terrible unknown future. The bombings of Hiroshima…

powerful weapon mankind has ever came to conceive. With one fell swoop it ended the Second World War. But in that blood lust, came its opposite; in that same power came fusion, and thus, nuclear power! Nuclear power can be the solution power crisis that will face humanity in the next twenty or so years. The one problem with it, is that is very misunderstood, and, people have chosen contemporary forms of power over it in recent years, without realizing the benefits it has in store. For one…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Have you ever wondered what would have happen if the United States had not dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Who knows how long World War II could have gone on for? What country would have used nuclear warfare first, and who would they have used it on? All questions that will never be answered because the United States did drop the bombs on Japan. The United States did the right thing dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the bombs lead to the…

most powerful members of the international system, drawing on all of their resources and using every weapon at their command,” (Mandelbaum 20) is definitely becoming obsolete. Mandelbaum, Kaysen and Lyon all come up with answers on why this is the case in today’s global society. The most dominant answer between them all is that major war is no longer favourable due to the rise of nuclear weapons. According to Mandelbaum, major wars started to become outdated while the Cold War was still going on…

economic and ethical reasons. If you look at demographics for war and terrorism, along with the crime rate in nations across the world, it is clear that humanity is at its most violent in years. Nations across the world are pending more on nuclear weapons and other military action. With as many moral and religious differences that are globally prominent, seemingly peaceful protest can turn into violent revolt. Many compare violence to all out war, but that isn’t a fair assessment. All across…

interlude of the Yeltsin years was an exception. As soon as Putin took over the helms of Russia, the old cold war dynamics of mistrust and paranoia have come to the fore again. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 underscored the need for responsible nuclear leadership and was a precursor to the détente. During the early Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT 1), the two superpowers even agreed to expose themselves to each other in order to ensure neither side would cheat on arms control agreements.…

A single nuclear weapon may have an explosive force equivalent to millions of tons. That would equal megatons of trinitrotoluene. Trinitrotoluene is normally called TNT and is the chemical explosive normally used for comparisons and can destroy a large city in just a few seconds. The devastating power of nuclear weapons comes from the core of the atom. The core of the atom is called the nucleus. One type of nuclear weapon is the fission bomb. The Fission bomb uses…

“Manhattan Project,” a top-secret nuclear weapon development organization for the purpose of attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The idea of creating the weapons was originated when Albert Einstein5 heard about the efforts of Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be turned into the atomic bomb. After seven years of working, the Y-12 power plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, produced bomb-grade U-235 that was shipped to New Mexico to construct the weapons named Little Boy and Fat Man,…