Plutonium

Ultimately, war is evil. Harry Patch, the last living soldier from the first World War, once said, “War is organized murder; and nothing else.” The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are perhaps one of the most criticized while simultaneously being one of the most defended moments in the history of the world. Regardless of the outcome, the United States did what they had to do to end the cold-blooded fighting that plagued the world for over half a decade. On August 6, 1945 the United States…

Danger UXB episode 1, Dead Man's shoes begins with a royal army officer attempting to remove the fuze from an unexploded Bomb. After striking the locking ring with a hammer and chisel the bomb begins to tick and explodes. Later Lt. Brian Ash arrives at the 97 engineering company where he is informed that they are now a bomb disposal company. After meeting a few of his fellow officers and moving into his new quarters Lt. Adam Pringle gives him a class on the General High Explosive bombs, which…

Once the suicide bomber(s) pulled the pin on the device, in a spilt second after the two masses collide creating an uncontrolled chain reaction as the masses once together become a supercritical mass, the explosion releases energy in the form of a blast wave, thermal radiation, and nuclear radiation. A tremendous amount of energy released in a nuclear detonation, temper­atures of tens of millions of degrees develop in the immediate area. At these temperatures, everything near ground-zero…

Why do we think that our world will be like wall-e’s world? I’m going to give the necessary information to make you reader a conscious man and a helper of the planet. All of this tragedy began in 1760 when Europe start the transition of new manufacturing processes, This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factory system.…

January 31st, 1950 President Truman announced that the Atomic Agency was told to continue with its work on the Hydrogen Bomb. Five months before this, the Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb at their test site in Kazakhstan. Then many weeks after that, British and U.S. intelligence found out that the German-born Klaus Fuchs, a top ranked scientist in the U.S nuclear program was a spy for the Soviet Union. This made Truman approve the massive funding for the superpower race to…

A nuclear power plant uses Nuclear Fission to create energy. Nuclear fission occurs when a neutron passes by a heavy nucleus such as Uranium-235, the nucleus may capture the neutron which may or may not cause nuclear fission. If the reactor used is U-235 when a neutron is captured the energy is spread out through the 236 nucleons (both protons and neutrons) that are currently present in the nucleus. This nucleus is likely to break up into two fragments due to its instability. These fragments are…

The K-19 was the Soviet's first submarine equipped with nuclear weapons. In order to keep up with the United States, the Soviet Union quickly constructed the K-19. Construction began in the late 1950s. The ship soon proved to be deadly. During the frenzied construction of the submarine, several people died. Two workers died when an explosion caused a fire to break out. While gluing rubber lining into a water tank, six women were suffocated by fumes. An electrician was crushed to death by a…

The invention of the atomic bomb The atomic bomb was the first bomb ever to make such destruction where ever it will hit and that if you’re close to it, then you won’t have any time to run away or anything. It can even destroy an entire town. It was made in the early 1939 and the person who made it was Albert Einstein and that the scientists had learned the secrets of the splitting a uranium atom which was a way to spread out fear and that all of the scientists were prison by the Nazi. So…

Three Mile Island is a great feat of technological advancement. It gives lots and lots of people clean power. Nuclear power plants create no air pollution which is the the biggest problem in our society today. There is a discussion whether it should stay open or go closed. I think it should stay open because there are way more benefits than negatives. Three Mile Island Is a nuclear power plant just outside of Harrisburg and powers many people's homes. It runs on uranium pellets which are…

In my opinion I believe that WWII was the last total war of the modern era. Total war can be described as a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, civilians, territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. The war changed the world of work for women, when men went to fight women were called upon to fill their jobs and this included many jobs that were previously thought of unsuitable for women. Women played a…