...bomb? Would the hydrogen bomb come to mind? This is the most notorious bomb ever created to eradicate anything within a forty-seven mile radius. Any man-made weapon falls short of a hydrogen bomb’s destructive capability. You probably don’t know a lot about this weapon, but that’s already covered in this paper. Everything has to have an inventor, and that’s where we start. The inventor of the Hydrogen bomb is Edward Teller. Teller has received the Albert Einstein Award, Enrico Fermi Award, Harvey Prize in Technology, National Medal of Science of Physical Science, and the presidential Medal of Freedom. He was assigned by President Harry S. Truman. He got his education at Leipzig University, and later got another at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology....
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...The end of World War 2, the start of the Cold War. World War II started with Germany’s Hitler looking to achieve his domination of central and Eastern Europe for Germanys expansion. Hitler’s war was primarily to establish Germany as the superior race, as well as his hatred against the Jews and Russia. With the closing of World War II, atrocities all around the world occurred. Estimates of 50 million lives lost displayed the great casualties in World War II than in any war. The closing WWII developed a new problem between the United States and Russia that would lead to the Cold War. On June 6th 1944, The US lead storming of Normandy would essentially turn the war around and begin the process of ending the war. “The Normandy invasion took place in the Bay of the Seine, on the south side of the English Channel between the Cotentin Peninsula and the port of Le Havre, France. Some 55 miles broad and 20 deep, its waters were shallow, had a considerable tidal range and could be very choppy.” (Anonymous, 2011) Russia and United states allied to launch a massive attack on German troops to advance and liberate France. As the allies were making swift progress, an assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944 within the chain of command failed. On April 30th 1945, Hitler committed suicide shortly after and removed Germany from the war. In August of 1945, the United States would drop atomic bombs on both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The bombs known as “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” put an...
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...used for warfare was during World War II when the United States bombed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki just days apart in August 1945. Where did this monstrosity originate? Via the “Manhattan Project”.The Manhattan Project was a combination of the United States’ financial, scientific, industrial, and technological might to produce the ultimate weapon...The Atom Bomb. [ae] “The Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable Atomic Bomb.” The first and most difficult step towards the creation of the “A bomb” was the production of “enriched” uranium- to create a chain reaction. Back then, extracting that kind...
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...Ph.D. ENR 2100 July 10th , 2015 Nuclear Legacy 1.a) United States in New conducted the first nuclear test in Mexico just south of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1945 (Lower and Lower). When the Cold War broke out shortly after the United States used their bombs on Japan, Russia spent all their energy on trying to overtake the United States in the arms race. By 1961, the Russians have taken the lead. At that time, the United States were capable of advanced targeting methods for their nuclear arsenal. To compensate, the Russians chose to widen the area of their nuclear bomb’s effectivity. There is a a 50-60 megaton Soviet atomic bomb codenamed Tsar to get the culmination of this competition (Lower and Lower). 1.b) A New York Times article titled Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision reads, to achieve the goal of global denuclearization for Mr. Obama is very crucial. (Broad and Sanger A1). He thought that it is too naive to keep developing the advanced nuclear weapons in order to stop the countries like Iran and North Krean. The most powerful man in the world having this kind of opinion is a great step towards the stoppage of production of nuclear weapons. This, however, looks like it’s the most that can be done right now with nuclear weapons. Nuclear testing sites such as Los Alamos National Laboratory fields and the Novaya Zemlya are still largely left deserted. When it comes to cleaning up of ecosystems affected by nuclear waste, it seems like Russia and the...
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...destroyed, and many soldiers died. This event would bring the United States into World War II. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because it was considered the height of America’s Naval supremacy. Another reason is that the Japanese knew the United States would primilary be using the navy to attack them. Since the Japanese were trying to take over China, they knew it would be a bit easier for them to do it because it would be harder for us to get to Japan and stop them if they destroyed the American Navy in Pearl Harbor. Despite how far Japan was from Pearl Harbor, it was still closer then the rest of the United States. The Japanese fleet had to sail over 4,000 miles to launch airplanes to attack Hawaii. The Japanese were able to attack Pearl Harbor because America's intelligence community failed to notice them. Some reasons why it was hard for the American intelligence community to notice the Japanese on their long naval journey, was the Japanese would only travel at night and would not use any radio communication. Any form of radio interception was impossible (Truman). The Manhattan Project started when Albert Einstein left Germany to come to the United States to escape Nazi prosecution. A month after Einstein had left Germany he wrote a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to develop nuclear technology and an atom bomb. Einstein said that German scientists might have already been working on a nuclear bomb. Roosevelt acted on the letter from Einstein and the government developed a...
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