Tsar Bomba

lay in the snow" (The Last Tsar of Russia). Tsar Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia. He was a family man with no desire to rule and did so poorly. He would have driven Russia into the ground had not been forced to advocate. Tsar Nicholas led Russia into many defeats and his people faced extreme poverty and poor working conditions. During Tsar Nicholas's rule more than half the population was in poverty and war was both unavoidable and unwinnable. Although Tsar Nicholas was not ready to…

these castles to splatter on the ground below. When he came of age, Ivan researched was to ensure that his rule would not be question nor usurped, to answer this, he became the first Russian ruler to declare himself tsar in Russia’s history. This shocked some of the nobles, being tsar meant that he believed instead of being chosen by the community, that he was chosen by god and that his rule was absolute. He later chose his wife from a group of virgins. He later married his wife Anastasia…

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, a ruler over Russia during the 1500s, has much controversy surrounding him. Many historians debate whether Ivan's name was really meant to mean cruel and sinister or awesome and threatening. The nickname of "Ivan the Terrible" is a translation from the Russian language. The original word used for terrible was "grozny", which is believed by some to have meant "fearsome" or "formidable", rather than horrific and monstrous ("Prominent Russians"). Ivan was truly terrible because…

After seeing and hearing about the destruction of the Trinity test, many scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project lost enthusiasm. They realized the amount of devastation that the bomb they created would bring if used as a weapon. Many scientists fought against the production of more atomic bombs. Some even quit the Manhattan Project due to moral reasons. They did not want to be a part of the massive casualties these bombs would bring. After the success of the Trinity test, the United…

The most destructive bomb ever tested was the Tsar Bomba in 1961, created by the Soviet Union. Little Boy released 15 kilotons of energy while the Tsar Bomba released approximately 50,000 kilotons and had a mushroom cloud that was four and half times the height of Mount Everest. To put that into perspective, if they dropped Little Boy on West Chester University, people as far as Farrell Stadium would suffer from 3rd degree burns, but if the Tsar Bomba were dropped on West Chester University,…

Have you ever seen a war fought without weapons. Well, the cold war was one of the wars that was fought without actual battle. Three main points way the cold war started was america wanted to stop communism, afraid of one another, and massive arms race. Those are the main points why the cold war started. Communism was the act of sharing things they owned with others. America was not agreeing to this, so they tried their best to stop it. America helped out greece during their depression.…

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…

weapon.After the 1960 U-2 incident, US declared Massive Retaliation Doctrine which stated the policy of responding to major soviet attacks with massive retaliation response. Soviet further aggravate by conducting largest ever bombast by detonating “Tsar Bomba” over Novaya Zemlya off norther Russia.(ICAN,n.d) Meanwhile, other countries such as Britain, France and China equipped themselves with nuclear weapons in attempts to prepare themselves in the volatile politics. Finally, world faced the…

Chemistry is an umbrella term that refers to any study of properties, compositions, and reactions occurring between elements at an atomic level. Chemistry exists in many forms: biochemistry, theoretical chemistry, and nanochemistry for instance. One form of chemistry, nuclear chemistry, deals with radioactivity and nuclear processes. The most notable of these processes is transmutation. Transmutation refers to the action that changes an atom of a specific element to a different element, either…

As Kevin reached the front of the stupefying storm he noticed that the rain didn’t seem to have a particular direction. The rain seemed to have a mind of its own. Moving chaotically and disorderly, but it moved as if it had a purpose. Every step Kevin took seemed to cause a wave, as if he was walking on water. A great ocean of land mass. Everything around Kevin became more and more surreal. The shades Kevin had put in his pocket began to tempt Kevin, as if they were communicating to him. He had…