Strategic bombing

REFLECTION ON REQUIEM OF THE BATTLESHIP YAMATO. Before I knew the details of World War 2, I knew about the Kamikazes. I was about 7 years old when I connected what Kamikazes were and who used them, but I still did not know what war it was used in. At such a tender age, I was familiar with the stereotype that the Japanese were ruthless killing machines with no regard for life. It was not until I came to the United States that I learned the kamikazes were used in World War 2 and that the Japanese…

Deconstructing Terrorism: An Analysis of the Secular Premise of Suicide Bombings in the Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape This study on terrorism will define the primarily secular motivations for suicide bombers and other terrorists to strategically oppose foreign occupation of their country in the data collected in Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape. Traditionally, the use of terrorism has been propagandized by western…

One of the biggest moral conundrums in human history was the creation of the Atomic Bomb. The possibility of these weapons came into fruition soon after the discovery of nuclear fission and the potential energy that can be released. Once the thought of weaponizing this process was considered, many countries wanted to jump on its development and be the first to accomplish this feat, but like all next fields of discovery, had little understanding how to go about the process. Various trials and…

At 9:02Am on April 19th, 1995 the bombing of the Oklahoma city Alfred p. murrah federal building exploded. The building was loacted underneath the America’s kids daycare center. The left wall of the Murrah building was the first to come down along with the top floors. The aftermath of the explosion left a 30ft wide, 8ft deep crater in the street that was covered by the debris of the building. ( Smith, 2015) During the time of the explosion McVeigh was in the building parking lot. He Feld scene…

could do and they do it. Usually people who commit the most violent crimes, like murder and assault, have something wrong with their psychology. Some people believe that Timothy McVeigh was mentally unstable when he decided to do the Oklahoma City Bombing. Many people live a hard life in this world and one of them was Timothy McVeigh. He “was the middle child in a blue-collar family in rural New York state” (“McVeigh”). McVeigh’s parents got…

Ammonia is a colorless gas with a characteristic irritating odor. As we may know, ammonia is mostly used by agriculture as a fertilizer. Ammonia has not only been used as a fertilizer, but it has also been used to create explosives and even for illicit purposes. For example, ammonia is used as a key ingredient in the making of methamphetamine. Now, on April 19, 1995 a domestic terrorist attack place against the Oklahoma federal building. Ammonia was a key component used to create the high…

bomb. The bomb was made up of “4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer mixed with fuel oil in 20 blue plastic drums. It was “boosted” with metal containers of hydrogen or acetylene, to make it even more lethal” (Thomas). A couple days before the bombing mcveigh started assembling the bomb in the back of the rented Ryder moving truck. He took the truck and stayed at a motel in Kansas, then continued on down south to Oklahoma City to carry out his mischievous…

Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 18, 1995, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing, it happened at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. In this attack there was a total of 168 deaths, 19 were children that were in the day-care center that the building had, and more than 500 people were injured. The bomb was made with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. This was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001. When the bombing happened…

The explosion was set in Texas City, Texas. It was on the southwestern shore of Galveston Bay. Seven miles from Galveston and 11 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston County. This eventful day had two explosion from two ships, S.S. Grandcamp and S.S. High Flyer. The S.S. Grandcamp was a 437 foot long Liberty ship. This ship has the cargo of peanuts, tobacco, twine, and bunker oil. The Grandcamp arrived from Houston, Texas where the port authority did not permit the loading of…

Example 4. Etiology of Violence Timothy McVeigh grew up in Pendleton, New York, a predominantly white neighborhood (Nichols, 2003). Although very bright, McVeigh was considered a loner and an underachiever in school. After high school, he developed an obsession with guns and began to stockpile weapons and supplies. In 1988, McVeigh enlisted in the U.S. Army. While in the Army, he became obsessed with the Turner Diaries, a book full of violent racist and anti-Semitic fantasies. Moreover,…