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    quotes about World War III are “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” ~ Albert Einstein (2005) (1). “Do you know how many times we’ve come close to World War Three over a flock of geese on a computer screen.” ~ Alan Moore (2). These quotes shows that World War III will possibly happen any day with weapons that we never seen before but World War IV will be fought with weapons that are hideous and an disgrace to history.…

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    That fateful day in Hiroshima August 6, 1945, Japan will forever be the primary example of what unpredictable outcome an atomic bomb can unleash on an entire population. Although this event brought an end to World War II and a United States victory, the chain reaction of energy coming from bursts of fission was not predicted to have such a devastating effect as it did on the Hiroshima community. It was even out of the Hiroshima bombing that physicists coined the term kiloton (1,ooo tons) and…

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    Pros And Cons Of Nukes

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    long as these weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal to deter any adversary and guarantee that defense to our allies.” This remark is about nuclear weapons. In his address, Obama made an obvious objection to nuclear disarmament of just the United States, basically saying that it isn’t practical that we give up our weapons until everyone else does. Nuclear weapons, or “nukes” for short, are either bombs or missiles that explode with nuclear energy,…

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    there, I keenly felt the pain of war and the cruelty of nuclear weapons. Even though the building is still alive now, the victims who were around there were killed at the moment of the explosion. Although nuclear weapons are the most relentless weapons in the human history, they still exist around the world; therefore, humanity have to strive to gradually reduce nuclear weapons as their responsibility. Nuclear weapon is the most cruel weapon in the human history, and it is proved in Hiroshima…

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    comes to mind when you hear the words nuclear weapons yes an extremely huge explosion that has a capacity to wipe out an entire island and everything else in it. Although they are often associated with death and devastation nuclear weapons have a good side surprise surprise but the majority still believe nuclear weapons should be deactivated and hidden away where no one can have access to them. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that goes off because of nuclear reactions- fission fusion, or…

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    one may argue that “nuclear deterrence” is still relevant in promoting world peace”. The post Cold War era indicates the period when the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present. The nuclear deterrence strategy gained more prominence as a military strategy regarding the use of nuclear weapons during Cold War. Nuclear deterrence is a way to inhibit a country’s intended aggression moves by threatening a more powerful adversary with nuclear weapons. The objective of nuclear deterrence is…

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    Nuclear Weapons Such a dangerous weapon of mass destruction not any weapon but a nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons can only be two things a nuclear bomb, or a nuclear missile that uses energy to cause an explosion. Since August 6, 1945 to today April 6, 2015 the nuclear weapons has killed over 129,000 people.(Hersam Acorn, 2015, hiroshima survivors address harvey students, staff).This is a major weapon that we are talking about. The first atomic bomb was tested at the trinity site at…

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    Nuclear weapons are a device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or a combination of the two processes. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. This bomb releases the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of Explosive Trinitrotoluene (TNT). Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons to mankind.One hit can destroy an entire country. The United States was the first…

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    Nuclear Bomb Accidents

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    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…

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    reactors, causing a nuclear accident on March 11th 2011 that would reintroduce to the world the question of “Should the use of nuclear energy continue?” Fukushima and many other critical junctures since the start of the first nuclear reactor in Idaho, in December 1951, have influenced changing attitudes towards nuclear energy throughout time. Nuclear power is one of the primary sources of energy, it provided over 19% of the total electrical output in the United States alone. (World nuclear…

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