Nuclear weapons

Vaults, one even contain only a box of puppets! Maybe I’ll tell the President about these strange anomalies when I return back to the capital. Suddenly it hit. It was a large nuclear weapon, launched by the Reds. The west coast was the first to get hit, the fools. They should’ve heeded the air sirens warning about the nuclear harbinger of doom. The east coast took immediate action, with U.S forces and another force, The Enclave, attempting to get as many to the vaults as they can. The President…

Dropping the Atomic Bombs Although there had been years of planning the use of nuclear weapons in World War II, the final decision to drop the first atomic bomb was not made until the summer of 1945. This was after the Allies captured Okinawa, executed the firebomb campaign against Japan, and the Japanese ignoring the Potsdam Declaration. According to memorandum from General L.R. Groves to the Chief of Staff on August 6, 1945, “the gun type bomb was ready at Tinian on 31 July awaiting for first…

Respectively on August 6th and 9th, 1945, the massive nuclear atomic bomb under the command of president Harry S. Truman, hit Hiroshima, a Japanese location of military installment and Nagasaki, which was place with major seaports and industrial plants. This day was marked not only into history, but literally into the beings of the Japanese people. There are countless interpretations that are brought up about the occurred bombings, some being positive and some being negative. President Truman’s…

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were a basic form of constitution is laid out, and if crimes going against this constitution were committed; no national superpower has the power to veto; this government would also only pertain to major global conflict, such as climate change, war, nuclear weaponry. It is a system such as this that could solve problems, without worry international disputes, and put the good of the people before the good of a certain nation. In summary, national interests have lead to many problems, war,…

statement poses countless questions about the nature of the bombings; as did the justification for bombing a non-military city bring a means to an end or an end to the means. There are lingering questions surrounding the ethics of atomic and nuclear weapons, asking whether the United States truly had justifiable reasons for Hiroshima. Although it ended the physical warfare of the Second World War, the United States had no true ethical justification for the Hiroshima bombings of 1945, primarily…

When ones first thought of Japan is sushi, it usually is not far off from a typical American. In the 1940’s Americans were thinking about what to do about those “Commi Japs” out east. Ever since they bombed Pearl Harbor, no American could get the Japanese off his or her mind and it led us into a hard rough next few years fighting World War II. Germany was tough, but fighting Japan was the real challenge, mostly because of their armies mindset, which was never surrender. So they would go in guns…

all the missiles from Turkey. “On May 1962 Soviets secretly begin shipping 40,000 troops, 60 missiles, and 158 nuclear warheads to communist Cuba (Doc D). So the has to find a way to stop this, and what they did was to use quarantine against ships carrying offensive weapons to Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis is a good example of containment because it applied to the problem of soviet nuclear warfare aimed towards…

course, the Japanese government had no idea of the power of the atomic bomb, which made them less prone to surrender under a potential threat of a weapon of mass destruction. During this time, American war planners understood that they could not simply use a test of an atomic detonation to convince Japan to surrender, but that they had to actually use the weapon in order to save millions of lives in the ongoing ground-based military operations in Japan: “They were committed to using the bomb as…

1945 and the day was silent. The bomb was dropped by Americans who were completely aware of the possibility of massive civilian casualties.“It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower The bomb, known as Little Boy, killed more than 140,000 people within the first flush of radiation. Those who lived were considered worse off than those who died. The survivors suffered horrible burns and died a slow,…