...HOW TO RECOGNIZE WHEN YOU ARE IN A CONTAMINATED AREA AND HOW TO PROTECT AND DECONTAMINATE YOURSELF Chemical warfare is a place where you do not want to be in ever in your life. It is a situation that I pray no one will ever have to be in during their lifetime. When I was in the Army, the last few months of my time was to teach soldiers that were on their way to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan about Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) warfare. When you are in a situation where you have to protect yourself from NBC, you have less than two minutes to protect yourself. There will be no time to think about anything else but to make sure that you protect yourself properly. What I want to do is to teach the reader on how to recognize if they are and a contaminated area. Once they recognize they are and a contaminated area, I want the reader to know how to properly protect and decontaminate themselves after the ordeal is over. The two types of chemical weapons that will be discussed will be sulfur mustard, also known as mustard gas and nerve agents. They are the two most popular types of chemical agents that are used during chemical warfare. I urge the reader to be sure that they do everything right the first time when it comes to recognizing when they are in a contaminated area and they protect themselves from contamination. The way people in the military protect themselves from chemical agents will be different from the way civilians when the protect themselves. I will inform...
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...this paper I will talk about the role women played to helped win World War II, will describes two civil rights breakthroughs, explain two ways the Vietnam War brought political awareness to a new generation of young Americans and I will talk about two programs that president Lyndon Johnson Great Society Agenda had put into effect and that are still into effect today. A turning point was in 1962, the world experienced a threat so real, so dangerous, and so deadly; that any believed Armageddon was approaching. The Cuban Missile Crisis was undoubtedly the closest the world has come to nuclear war in its entire existence. The presence of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuban soil, less than 100 miles from the coast of Florida shocked the world. The discovery of the missiles was completely unexpected; the public's reaction was not. Thousands of people stockpiled food, students were trained to survive nuclear holocaust and civilians built bomb shelters in their back yards. It was the most shocking event of the 20th Century. The second turning point was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 27, 1963 where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his I Have A dream speech on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. Two...
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...Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage, and in a much shorter time frame. A major nuclear exchange would have long-term effects, primarily from the fallout released, and could also lead to a "nuclear winter" that could last for decades, centuries, or even millennia after the initial attack.[1][2] Some analysts claim that with this potential nuclear winter side-effect of a nuclear war almost every human on Earth could starve to death,[3][4] While other analysts, that dismiss the nuclear winter hypothesis, calculate that with nuclear weapon stockpiles at Cold War highs, in a surprise countervalue global nuclear war, megadeaths to billions of casualties would have resulted but billions of people would nevertheless have survived the global thermonuclear war.[5][6][7][8] Only two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both by the United States near the end of World War II. On August 6, 1945, a uranium gun-type device (code name "Little Boy") was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion-type device (code name "Fat Man") was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombings resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 people from acute injuries sustained in...
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...dropped on two different Japanese cities in order to end war. The question people were and still to this day are asking is, “Was it the right thing to do?’ Yes it was the best thing to do in that certain situation. The atomic bombs explosion is massive.“A nuclear weapon’s explosive power is measured in yield, which is expressed in tons of TNT. Fission, or atomic bombs, can be as small as one kiloton (KT) of explosive power or as large as several hundred kilotons.”(PBS Newshour) This is important because it's showing the measures of the power of an atomic bomb. Since the end of the Cold War, both Pakistan and India have developed nuclear...
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...not to attack first, people easily visualized scenarios in which misunderstandings, technological failures, or even rogue commanders could have started a full-scale nuclear war. While the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was resolved peacefully, the US could have easily invaded Cuba, forcing the Soviets to retaliate, almost certainly with nuclear weapons. A nuclear attack on US soil would have had unspeakable consequences - the deaths of millions, as well as possibly hundreds of years of contaminated land leading to birth defects, cancer, and other horrors as have been seen, e.g. near the Chernobyl site. The current threat of terrorism we live under is in some ways much less. On the one hand, terrorist attacks happen every day across the world - Americans have been killed in embassy bombings, by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of course on 9/11. A nuclear war is still only theoretical (America still being the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons in warfare). However, the numbers of people who die in terrorist attacks worldwide doesn't even approximate the numbers who might die in a nuclear attack - terrorist attacks are generally small-scale, targeting relatively small numbers of people. Even 9/11, with a few thousand lives lost, was tiny compared to the deaths that would occur in a deliberate nuclear attack (for example, compared to the hundreds of thousands killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The greatest fear in living under terrorism is that extremists...
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...Nuclear War. The end of human civilization. The threat of such a war hovers over nations today and the consequences of one conflict would be immense. Nuclear weapons have been around for some time now. The first nuclear bomb test happened in New Mexico, July 16, 1945, near the end of World War II. As a result, most people might dismiss the threat saying “It’s safe.” Therefore, in order to better protect the Earth and its inhabitants, nuclear weapons should be banned from warfare. Rising political tensions are increasing the possibility of a nuclear World War III. According to Retired Navy Admiral James Stavridis, “the chance of having a nuclear war with North Korea is 10%, where the chance of a global Nuclear War is 20-30%.” Tensions have been this high before however, during the Cold War, when Fidel Castro overthrew the previous pro-American Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista. Known as the “Bay of Pigs Invasion”, the CIA’s failed attempt to overthrow Castro, in order to keep American Influence on the island, was heard about throughout the nation....
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...No country would have been ready for this type of attack. Japan refused surrender, indicating that they had the mentality that they were stronger and more capable than America. When the attack destroyed the whole city of Hiroshima, it brought to light the many weaknesses that the government had not seen before. Nations all across the world learned the effects of nuclear power, and started to make their own weapons. Japan started to focus on itself, making their defense more powerful than their offense. After the bombings, instead of pitying themselves and asking for charity, Japan started to sympathise and work back up from the ground by themselves. They began to start more positive movements. Some of these movements were anti-nuclear weapons, starting to build shelters for the victims of nuclear bombings, and the government began to sympathise with its civilians and strived to help them. Compared to their attitude during the war, this is much more friendly and optimizing then the harsh mindset of war Japan. World War Two was a time where Japan invaded many neighboring countries, and the bombings allowed them to comprehend the pain they have caused to their neighbors. Since it was after Germany and Italy surrendered, the government of Japan decided it was better to end the war. Had it happened before the surrender,...
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...Duck and Cover Nuclear warfare was something that could damage all of civilization within a wide area, to know that a bomb could be set off and at anytime with no knowledge of when is a little scary. I would personally want to have some kind of idea so that I could protect my family in some form or fashion. In the video duck and cover watching the kids walking down the street and the bomb going off is scary. The video was a good form of teaching children and parents how to protect themselves if a nuclear bomb was to be set off. When terrorism struck the people had no idea of what was happening. The fact that a person or group of people considers hurting the innocent is wrong. The people that were killed in the 9-11 attack were just innocent by standers that were targeted because one person was upset with something that a past president had done. I personally think that a problem should be resolved in a different way other than violence. Terrorism threats and nuclear war are both dangerous to civilization. They both hurt and destroy innocent people and things. Unlike terrorism threats a nuclear bomb can destroy a wide variety of things and can affect civilization longer because of radiation being released, terrorist threats like 9-11 can destroy a variety of things like a nuclear bomb but it takes more than just one bomb. Terrorist threats can also affect civilization for a long period of time also, the people that lose family members can never get over that pain no matter what...
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...Christine Hilty Discussion Board 2: English 101-D19 November 24, 2011 Stop the Catastrophe In Figure 8.3, Greenpeace presents a very convincing logical and emotional appeal to viewers young and old, as to the seriousness of deforestation when compared to a nuclear holocaust. The clearing of the forests is one of the most horrific feats of humanity during our lifetime. Forests are fast disappearing, as thousands of plant and animal species are expunged forever. The comparison of deforestation to the atomic bomb dropped during World War II is both realistic and compelling. That resulting implosion initiated a chain reaction killing millions of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The aftermath has lingered more than 50 years later, as millions of individuals, worldwide, are still trying to cope with dramatic changes that were caused by this travesty. In this illustration, the dark and cloudy sky portrays a grim picture for the future. A single large tree shaped like an atomic mushroom, is carefully placed at the focal point, to represent the remaining world’s forests. The barren countryside is depleting of landmarks, so that this monstrosity is not linked with any particular country or region of the world. Therefore, all mankind is to blame for this outrageous act, regardless of culture, creed, education or beliefs. Mankind is represented by the “single axe man”, who stands at the base of the tree and is portrayed as the “root”...
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...In 1949 the USSR developed their first nuclear bomb, and in doing so, entered the nuclear arms race, which would prove to continue for the following sixteen years. The United States had already developed their first nuclear weapons and were well on their way to improving and replacing them. The Soviets were well aware of this, and the missile race was created by the two countries wanting to constantly out-do each other. This race appeared to be based on having the best defences from opposition attack, however it was also somewhat of a childish competition between the two to see who could build the bigger bomb. The weapons being developed were never actually used militarily, only in test situations. Had they been used, the safety of the entire world’s population would have been at risk, as both sides had enough weapons to ensure that in the event of a war, there would be Mutually Assured Destruction. As the technology, and the weapons being developed with the technology, was getting more and more advanced, the potential for mass-scale destruction became very real. Bomb sizes, ranges and tactics were being improved at a vast rate, and this put a huge danger to the world. The volatility of these weapons can be exemplified by the USA’s Jupiter missiles, based in Turkey, which, more than once, were struck by lightning, initiating their launch sequence. The range of the missiles was one thing that changed drastically during the arms race. Originally missiles had to be fired from...
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...Jimmy Neutron Professor Rob Allison Philosophy 172 3 November 2011 Nuclear Bomb in Japan The atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan during World War II is still one of the most catastrophic events in history. This bomb obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it is a major controversy of World War II. It remains a controversy because it questions the moral issue of killing innocent civilians to get the Japanese military to surrender the war. One British philosopher, AC Grayling, argues that the nuclear bombing of Japan was a moral crime because there is never a justifiable reason to attack civilians. The atomic bombing of Japan was unethical because it killed civilians, was a disproportionate attack for just conduct of war, and was a violation of human rights. It is immoral that United States targeted Japanese civilians with the atomic bomb to cripple the morale of the military. United States knew the bombs would kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but they still annihilated the cities to attain Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II. It was disregard for the moral right and AC Grayling states, Deliberately bombing cities and towns to kill and terrorize civilians, not all of whom are engaged in manufacturing arms or aiding their country’s military, and many of whom were children and elderly folk - and at the same time destroying the culture and necessities of the people contravenes every moral and humanitarian...
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...basement, it convinced youngsters that the atomic shells could drop at any time and gave them bad dreams. The government’s theory during this juncture was that atomic could be used as part of a “conventional” battle between America and Mother Russia. If that occurred, America would need to continue the manufacturing of war products. Large cities would surely be targets, and in the occasion of evacuation, cities would be gridlocked. Citizens of American were advised to formulate plans for potential nuclear occurrence, to recognize what to do and where to go if the air raid sirens ever went off. With Americans, terrified of nuclear fallout, many still searched for methods to formulate for persistence. Civil defense brochures gave directives on have a supply of non-perishable foods, drinking water, and lighting in basements. In the suburbs, several people built underground nuclear fallout shelters in their backyards —where they could take and wait out the nastiest consequences of nuclear...
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...2015 World War Three’s a crowd: Iran, Israel, U.S.? Although officials of the United States, Iran, and Israel are currently attempting to solve problems through the use of diplomacy, relations are not improving quickly enough and could lead to the start of a nuclearized World War 3. Recent protests and slayings have led many people to pose the question of whether the heated relations between the two countries could lead to a World War three? Given continuously steady turmoil and mutual feelings of disgust for the two middle eastern countries, settling this dispute peacefully seems to be the furthest thing from possible. This drawn out dispute has the capability to escalate without warning very quickly and result into an outright bloody nuclear war. The United States is currently serving as a mediation tool for the Israelis, to soothe the Iranian government with the threat of the strength of the U.S. momentarily while it figures out it's next move. Little seems to be accomplished regarding peace, instead both sides seem to be preparing for War through their respective actions. However, if called upon the United States will prove to be a powerful and not easily subdued ally for the Israeli people. Though the future remains widely uncertain concerning this diplomatic dilemma in the Middle East, one thing is certain, growing tensions between the two must be settled very quickly if a peaceable solution is to be adopted. The potential war ideology is fueled by the recent public requests...
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...The Atomic Bomb WHEE! BOOM! Would you like it if your family was vaporized and your house was destroyed? Well, that`s what happened to thousands of people when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I do not think the dropping of the atomic bomb was justified, but it is a necessary evil. We should not have dropped the atomic bomb because it started the Arms race. Before, we dropped the atomic bomb nobody had nuclear weapons. Now the world has more than 30,000. In fact, several countries including France, China and North Korea have nuclear weapons. Now, nuclear weapons are thousands of times stronger. This means that, one extremely formidable nuclear weapon could destroy the whole state of Florida. It makes me believe, that we are never safe because anytime now we could we could be attacked by lethal nuclear weapons. However, the dropping of the atomic bomb was justified because the Japanese started the war by attacking Pearl Harbor. It makes me believe the atomic bomb was just defense. Think of it like this: if a school bully was about to punch you, would you block his punch or let him hit you. Obviously, you would block his punch. Furthermore, the Japanese killed 2,300 American soldiers at the naval base. The attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 1, 1941 at 7:55 AM. The Japanese warships wrecked 8 battle crafts and 188 aircrafts. It was all because U.S created an embargo on Japan, making them lose access to fuel to continue the war in Asia. It...
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...In John Hersey’s, Hiroshima, he tells the story of six individual inhabitants who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history, the bombing of Hiroshima. Hersey goes on to explain what each of the six individuals was doing, from their daily lives to the very moment the bomb drops, and even 40 years later. Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto is one of the six individuals that Hiroshima focuses on. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Rev. Tanimoto was moving a tansu to the house of Mr. Matsui, a rayon manufacturer, in the suburbs for safe keeping due to the air-raid warnings that week. While Tanimoto and his friend were on that errand, the air-raid siren went off. Then as the morning continued, they saw a bright flash of light traveling east to west. He instantly knew something bad had to have happened. Being far enough away from the city blast site, the two men could brace themselves, Tanimoto diving for safety between two big rocks before the concussion from the blast could reach them. When they emerged from hiding, Rev. Tanimoto surveyed the destruction of the city from a hill. Tanimoto ran to help those in the city, “He had thought of his wife and baby, his church, his home, his parishioners, all of them down in that awful murk. Once more he began to run in fear—toward the city.” (p.25) Mr. Tanimoto felt ashamed that he was unhurt by the bomb and immediately started helping those afflicted by the bomb, in Asano Park. Mr. Tanimoto worked endlessly to bring the dying...
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