...3y En THEME: THE BOMB Written paper for 25 August 2011: Answer all questions 1. Find information about Hiroshima. Hiroshima is city in Japan. Hiroshima gained city status on April 1st 1889. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. That was the first bomb to ever be dropped on a city. The bomb was dropped on a Monday, August 6, 1945. The Bomb, named Enola gay, directly killed an estimated 80,000 people. Therefor was the city very radioactive in its time and still is. About 90.000-140.000 was injured and radioactive after the bomb. Hiroshima became designated on April 1st 1980. Hiroshima is the largest city in the Chūgoku region. The city's current mayor since April 2011 is Kazumi Matsui. 2. Read and compare the two poems about Hiroshima, “Give Back the Human” by Sankichi Toge and the extract from “Hiroshima Peace Park” by Colleen Keating, an Australian: a. Give examples of characteristic stylistic features in both poems b. Which poem is more powerful in your opinion? Justify your answer. We can begin saying that the poem from Sankichi Toge is a poem written just after the disaster. And the poem from Colleen Keating is written 60 years later. The poem from Toge is very simple in its language, but very strong in my opinion, because it is so direct. It does say “give back my…” but what it’s really saying is that, don’t kill civilians, they are families and friends. While the other poem just is describing what happens and what’s going on and like in the...
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...speech and of the press. Since these two systems of government are diametrically opposed to one another, there can be little compromise between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States wanted to encourage free trade throughout the world. The Soviet Union wanted to shield off her own sphere from international commerce. “Russia feared that trade with the West would involve the risk of Russia being opened to western influences which would have eroded the strength of the totalitarian regime”. (FunFront.net). The differences between the United States and Soviet Union led to much animosity between the United States and the Soviet Union. The American people had been threatened by the Soviet Union; with the scare of the nuclear weapons, atomic bombs this meant that millions of American people would be killed, they had the capability of slaughtering tens of millions of Americans. This was a bad time for the American people especially when the draft begun, no one knew what was really going on. Families were in turmoil their families were being interrupted by and their young sons, brothers and husbands were being drafted. America was faced with a dilemma and no one knew the real reason behind it all. Family is important in our lives, and I...
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...Cold War and Communism HIS/135 Suzanne Ogden Jordan Billings October 6, 2012 To be under that kind of stress had to wreak havoc on children’s subconscious. I can’t imagine believing that these techniques would protect me from a bomb of that magnitude. I am sure if I had grown up when the government restricted us from information about atomic bombs I would have believed anything. As citizens back then we were led to believe that things would be ok because the government made a video that taught us that duck and cover would somehow save us from harm. This is comparable to what we see on the media everyday about upgraded airport security making our airway travel safer since 9/11. Another very comparable idea now as there was during the cold war would be color coded terror threat level charts. This could be compared to the cold war eras Defcom charts in which the number or color during the terror threat times we have now changes according to the threat level against the United states and its citizens. The United States has always kept list of people they have viewed as a threat. During the cold war error they kept a list of communist or communist sympathizers which was monitored by the FBI. During the era we are in now our government keeps a similar list of people whom they view to be terrorist or possible terrorist sympathizers. One major similarity between the two lists is that you can be on the list just for voicing out your disagreements with how...
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...ASSIGNMENT On Flame Virus & VariSign Management Information System --- (511) Submitted To :: MR. Anisur Rahman. Assistant Professor, IBA-JU. Submitted By :: Ishrat Reza. (201103025) WMBA, 1st Batch. Date :: 11.07.2012. Institute of Business Administration, Jahangirnagar University. Flame Virus Introduction : Flame virus is a more sophisticated weapon to get behind the enemies line than sending arms, ammunitions, soldiers. It’s a silent agent which kills the security of any computer, enter into it & steal valuable information from that. The virus is doing cyber espionage in Middle Eastern Countries. History : Flame was discovered first in May 2012 by MAHER Center of Iranian National CERT, Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab (Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. (Wikipedia, 2012) It has discovered that a module from the early 2009-version of Stuxnet, known as “Resource 207,” was actually a Flame plugin.This means that when the Stuxnet worm was created in the beginning of 2009, the Flame platform already existed, and that in 2009, the source code of at least one module of Flame was used in Stuxnet. (About Us: Kaspersky, 2012) Key Features: 1. Size—20MB, which is huge for a malware program. 2. The malware uses five different encryption methods and a SQlite...
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...Eerily, it seems that during the Cold War and the War on Terror, many of the feelings that citizens felt were the same, but what America called the enemy was different. Following the September 11th attacks, there was a feeling of paranoia felt throughout America similar to the paranoia felt during the Cold War. Americans did not feel safe, and an attack could come at any time. The fight on the home front looked different during the Cold War and the War on Terrorism. During the Cold War there was more of a correlation between fighting Communism, and buying consumer goods. During the war on terrorism Americans were asked to give up some of their rights in order to maintain their safety. There is an abundance of similarities between the Cold War and the War and Terror. In Echoes of the Cold War, Elaine Tyler May says, “The war against terrorism, like the struggle against Communism, defines the enemy as a worldwide conspiracy…with operatives infiltrating the United States.” In both wars, America was not just fighting a group of people; America was also fighting an idea. In the Cold war, America was fighting of Communism. The USA believed they were truly free, and that in order for other countries to be truly free they had to embrace capitalism and consumerism. America tried to spread capitalism to Vietnam and Korea by fighting in those countries, similarly to how America tried to bring Democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the War on Terrorism, the idea that America was...
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...battle between countries to maintain governmental status. The country was also recovering for World War II at this time and was standing their ground against the Soviet Union, fighting for their values and beliefs with only words and standing tall to represent their country. The cold war was a battle of threats and words with no physical fighting. The threats were about the nuclear weapons that were being housed in the Soviet Union after President Kennedy stated that we would not stand for these types of mass destruction weapons to be housed for the potential use against us and each countries standing up for its values, beliefs, and government (What was the Cold War, 00-12). The US and the Soviet Union were allies during WWII and as the shift in power and the rise of communism in the Middle East the tension between the two began to rise. Neither of the two countries wanted to take the first step towards a nuclear war so both sides just built wall to keep others out and as a method of showing their power and territory. As Kennedy states “We will no prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth – but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced.”(Farber, 1994), this statement shows that we will not start the fight but we also as a nation will not be afraid to stand up to you if you do strike. Starting a...
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...Essay Questions 1. How do the different actors in international system affect international relations? How do the different theories explain the role of these actors in the international system. The actors consist of state actors and non-state actors. Non-state actors and terrorism work outside the westphalian system and take power away from state sovereignty. They consist of terrorist groups, IGO’s like the European Union, NGO’s like multinational corporations. NGO’s increase interdependence and globalization. IGO’s bring about peace and spread democracy and war is not realistic. NGO’s even have the ability to remove state governments through public support and pressure placed on high ranking officials as shown in -----. They also have the power to hinder development of countries as shown in the Global South, but at the same time they provide many jobs for the economy. For state actors, the actions and decisions of states can effect profoundly the international because of polarity, hegemony, and economy. The Liberalist view would see non-state actors as a positive because they are bringing countries allowing them to work together through institutions increasing interdependence and globalization. Realists would say that these non-state actors are only out for self interest in profit and will use up resources taking advantage of wages whenever possible. Constructivist view would see terrorist groups specifically as falling under Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations...
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...airforce came and bombed Pearl Harbour, hoping to neutralize our navy. We had sustained heavy losses including losing 4 battleships, 3 cruisers and destroyers, 188 aircrafts, and 2,042 personnels. We also lost a shipyard, powerstation, and a torpedo and fuel storage facility. This act shocked the U.S. All of the military advisors gathered around and decided to stop this from happening again by entering the war. It had nearly been four years of fighting with Japan and Germany and there seemed to be no end. In the year of 1942, I met with atomic energy scientists and General Grove and ordered the immediate construction of an atomic bomb. After it had been tested, President Truman had decided to use this devastating weapon against Japan. I personally thought that this weapon was necessary because we were lossing men fast and we needed the war to end. After some debate, the U.S dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945 hoping Japan to surrender. At the sight of such devastating force, I felt touched at how many innocent lives were killed by this deadly weapon.They suffered heavy casualities but chose to remain in the war. I could not...
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...politicians exercising propaganda through nationalistic appearances to manipulate the public, leaving them with a tainted understanding of the nuclear situation, distorted by their insisted subjective realism. The promoted, deceptive influence of the government and international nuclear environment ultimately transforms the American people of the 1950s, resulting in naive behaviors and misappropriated reactions. This culture based on propaganda can be observed from the Bikini test, educational systems and household influence. Atomic Cafe is presents the story of the atomic bomb, birthed in the New Mexico Desert. As the United States experimented with first atomic and later hydrogen based nuclear testing, it is essential to emphasize the use of nationalism by the political sphere to propagate the public into accepting and misperceiving nuclear activity and it’s significance. Commander of the Bikini Tests, Vice Admiral W.H.P Blandy exerts a dictation of tailored apprehension and positioned defense to the public which initiates the preconceived reactionary processes of the American people, “….It will not destroy gravity, I am not an atomic playboy, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim.” Until today, nationalism is used as a cushion for questionable consideration of nuclear and foreign conflict. This subjective realism of nuclear activity positioned into the minds of the American people by the government is also found immersed in the education system in of the time in...
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...Colton Monts Professor Lennis Polnac English Composition I 20 February 2014 Environmental Destruction The environment has always been a major concern with the mass-utilization of its recourses by the human race. It is safe to say that the environment is not what it used to be. With human advancement comes more responsibility, thus requiring more care for the earth.(Variety 3) The safety the environment is essential for living and maintaining healthy inhabitants. There are many obstacles facing the environment; in order to understand how to promote sustainability, it is my aim to identify its most critical challenges. Overpopulation It is human nature to expand and reproduce; however, when humans invade an open space, they tend to lose the free services that nature provides. This population growth is viewed as the fundamental cause of environmental decay. While it is an important source of development, it can also be devastating to the environment. (Variety 3). In many places throughout the world population is exceeding its means in which the environment cannot sustain a healthy habitat for all. The ratio of humans to resources is becoming unbalanced, thus causing the scarcity of nature before it can replenish itself. Take China for example, overpopulation has become a serious concern since the end of World War ll. An article by Riviera relays her experience in Beijing in 2013 during its worst pollutant pandemic since 1954. She describes, “The acrid smell of...
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...Course Date Stuxnet virus was created as a strategic plan to end and disable the Iranian nuclear plant that was called Busheur. It is alleged that the virus was created and spread by the governments of Israel and United States of America (Nakashima, Ellen, Greg Miller, and Julie Tate, 1). Systems that might have assisted to quickly build an Iranian nuclear bomb were effectively damaged and crippled by the nasty software. Stuxnet was first discovered in July 2010 when approximately 60% of infections were reported from Iran (Etalle, 3). While the United States and Israel did lead an aggressive international political campaign to get Iran to halt its nuclear program, neither country has openly admitted any involvement in this cyber-attack. There is no hard evidence that links either country to Stuxnet. Regardless, most experts believe that this cyber-attack was carried out by the two countries on Iranian computers that control centrifuges in key nuclear plants, and that it has set the country back at least a few years in its quest to build nuclear weapons. However, some researchers have discovered that the program had also spread throughout many countries worldwide. As early as 2004 the united states intelligence agencies had identified the NEDA industrial group, an Iranian company, that had an oversight of the Natanz facility computerized industrial control system and other nuclear proliferation reports, leaked state department cables and other documents that were gleaned...
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...Nuclear Threat Preparedness Jennifer A. Brown HIS/145 December 12, 2013 Andrea Keefer Abstract Preparing for the threat of nuclear attack in itself is a threat, fear, and a form of terrorism. Not knowing each night before going to bed if waking up the next day is an option or safe and out of harm’s way, is atrocious, scary, and not a way anyone would ever be expect to live their life. This should never become a normal way of life. Everyone has a reasonable expectation to always feel safe in their own homes, streets, schools, neighborhoods, where ever they are because this is a civil society and for someone to threaten that way of life is quite breath taking. Nuclear Threat Preparedness It is almost unimaginable to think of how people had to feel back then under the constant threat of a nuclear attack. Imagine a government constantly telling its citizens that an attack will probably happen and to be prepared, be prepared, and be prepared. Preparing to die, to live in fear, to think feel the need to always look back over ones shoulder, or to start looking at a neighbor as if they may be the enemy that is a lot of pressure to live under every day. It would be like always having to stop to catch your breath because you are always running frantically in your head all the possibilities of death and survival. As no one wants to die. Then the guilt of knowing that someone somewhere in another country is being attack by a nuclear weapon like Japan with not one but two atomic...
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...Bomb. The movie was a satirical comedy about nuclear weaponry and what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button. At the core of the film was the story of top-ranking men of the United States and the Soviet Union who had become so destabilized by their inferiority complexes, they dared to use nuclear war as a way to supplement their short-comings. Ironically, the movie was made during a time when the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was, perhaps, at its worst. To the politically-aware, the film could have seemed rather untimely. The film was a ridiculously exaggerated take on Cold War attitudes, with the primary focus being the satirical theory of mutual assured destruction (MAD). Even though MAD was a realistic threat during the time, the film made it seem trivial and funny. The film opened with the mid-air refueling of a long-range bomber with obvious sexual overtones. After that, the movie shifted into gear when General Jack D. Ripper became mentally unhinged and sent bombers to attack the Soviet Union. The subject of the movie was Dr. Strangelove, a mysterious, wheelchair-bound German scientist whose mechanical arm was always on the verge of a Nazi salute. Loaded with thermonuclear weapons, a U.S. bomber piloted by Major T.J. "King" Kong was on a routine flight near the Soviet Union. There, he received orders to commence “Wing Attack Plan R,” best summarized as "Nuclear combat.” The Major relished the thought of...
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...international interests of superpowers. Presently, the world is experiencing transition to a New World Order, with no super power as the centre of the power hub. What then will the new order seek, now that ‘geo-economics’ has overtaken geo-politics. It is therefore imperative for us to know as to what is the role of India in Asian context, and how India’s regional diplomacy will affect the overall politico-military role of the country. Background 3. India being the largest democracy and the second most populous nation in the world deserves a pivotal position and role in the Asia-Pacific Region. Its strategic location on the Indian Ocean, its growing economy, its fast paced reforms in the service sector, its advances in space and nuclear technology, its armed forces and above all its people and rich culture endow it with enough fire power to affect Asia-Pacific affairs. 4. Unfortunately, the country has had...
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... the detonation of these bombs, and the ever lasting effects they would have on the world. The cost of the development and coordination for the Manhattan Project was $2-billion which was used to obtain sufficient amounts of the two necessary isotopes, uranium-235 and plutonium-239. The development and research was conducted mainly at 3 locations. At Oak Ridge, Tenn., the desired uranium-235 was separated from uranium-238 by a process called gaseous diffusion. At the Hanford installation, located in Washington State, huge nuclear reactors were built to transmute non-fissionable uranium-238 into plutonium-239. The actual design and building of the bombs took place at Los Alamos, New Mexico., under the leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The total project employed more than 75,000 workers and used 10 percent of the United States energy consumption. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three atomic weapons in 1945. The only nuclear test explosion, code-named Trinity, was of...
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