Just before dawn on July 6, 1945, only a few clouds hung over the still New Mexico desert. The air possessed that lucid clarity which skews all sense of distance and space. Out on the desert stood several large towers, yet from the perspective of the blockhouse, where the observers anxiously waited, they appeared as little more than a few spikes stuck in the sand. Suddenly, one of the towers erupted into a brilliant fireball, searing the air and instantly replacing the dawn’s pastels with a blazing
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The Ethics of WWII By: Henry Bray There is an underlying thread of racism as a reason that the United States dropped bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In a world where America already had a reputation of being racially elite via slavery, through the slaughter of the Chinese in the 1800’s, through the terrorization and segregation of the Native Americans, to ignoring what Hitler was doing to the Jewish people and in the total blind movement of rounding up Japanese Americans and placing
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MODERN AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY JULY 27, 2015 There have been many innovations developed as a result of World War Two (WWII). Many of those innovations and technologies were pushed forward in to high gear because of the need created by warfare. All types of items such as a proximity fuse (used to detonate bombs & Anti-Aircraft shells), significant advances in tanks, amphibious mobile troop carriers (DUKW), new designed aircraft carriers took over the old World War One battleships, were a
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Research Paper The Evolution of Explosives SC 413, Hazards and Chemistry of Explosives to First Responders The destructive power of explosives has been felt and documented in history as very powerful, but the impact, development and change that it took during the 20th Century will echo in eternity. Many important events like the civil war, the movement of peoples from Europe, and the development of nuclear power
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons have seconded this statement. Collectively, they are trying their best to convince people to support nuclear disarmament. Nuclear weapons have been used twice in warfare, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. More than 210,000 innocent civilians died, while countless suffered acute injuries. Supposing that a nuclear weapon will never be used again, a tone of uncertainty, there are intolerable effects from production, testing and
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In 1911, a great fire called the Triangle fire caused 146 people to die and most of them were women this was the most lethal workplace tragedy in American history, only 90 years later the attack on the world trade center broke the record. An author named Albert Marrin wrote a book called Flesh and Blood So Cheap argued about the lack of safety standards that were implicit and explicit. Implicit means that there is hints or clues and about evidence and explicit is the opposite, the evidence is clearly
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The new Trump administration has several issues to address in the next four years, especially those concerning the dilemma between increased costs of sustaining an ever-demanding nuclear program, whether to cut back on nuclear use, and the process of creating nuclear policy in general. Trump seems supportive of current nuclear policy but is ambiguous regarding continued contraction or expansion of arsenals. As the new administration prepares a review of the ongoing program and deliberate what to
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The movie starts with a text which states, “From the ashes of The Ruin, the communities were built. Protected by the boundary. All memories of the past are erased” (The Giver). This text gave us a clues on what happened before the current setting of the movie. Moreover, it gave us a clue on what changes they did for the community that was created. Let us now analyze the meaning of the phrase. The first sentence says “From the ashes of The Ruin, the Communities were built” (The Giver). The phrase
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A HISTORY OF WOOMERA Maks Z Woomera was created due to the needs of the Britain's defence after World War II. Britain required a large remote area to test new weapons systems. Many sites were considered including Canada. Though in the end Australia's vast and unpopulated inland won the day, and the Long Range Weapons Establishment (Woomera rocket range) was created on the 1 April 1947 as a Joint venture between Britain and Australia. Woomera's colourful history includes testing weapons, satellite
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Terrorist attacks are very dangerous and terrifying in the lives of people. The Boston Marathon Bombing is marked as the deadliest terrorist attack since September 11, 2001 in the United States (Rose). It not only affected individual lives, but also the city. The city had to rebuild and come together for the victims. The Boston Marathon bombing caused many deaths and injuries, changes in everyday life for many civilians, had a major effect on the city and people and a great time of healing. This
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