Nuclear Warfare Hiroshima‚ the first time nuclear bomb was used in war. On August 6‚ 1945 Hiroshima was attacked by the united states using a nuclear bomb named “Little Boy”. The attack on Hiroshima killed 20‚000+ soldiers and 70‚000-146‚000 civilians. “Little Boy” was detonated at 500 meters above the ground because it would spread further with radiation and cause more damage to structures and people. Nagasaki‚ August 9‚ 1945 bomb two. “Fat Man”was detonated over Nagasaki and killed up to 80
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Baba Gyani Triviani said: "Good were the days when people played Duke Nukem‚ Now people just say Dude Nuke ’em" Nuclear energy has been a controversial topic and a topic of debate from ages ago. In this post‚ I would like to analyse this from a layman’s perspective. Countries are growing rapidly‚ both economically and by population. And a commodity that seems to be needed more than ever‚ and the need for which will continue to grow unabated is energy. Energy is needed to do anything - Whether
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Nuclear Power may be atmospheric friendly‚ but it is capable of causing extensive harm on any living organism. One of the worst nuclear power accidents happened in the United States on March 28‚ 1979. The accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Three Mile Island 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island has two power plants and together they supplied about 300‚000 homes with electricity. The accident started out as a mechanical malfunction‚ but was intensified by human errors. It was
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“Nuclear energy research initially was concentrated on producing an atomic bomb for use in World War II. The development of nuclear energy for… the generation of electricity began only after the war ended in 1945” (Miller 1). Due to quick assumptions and little research‚ nuclear energy is thought of to be a safety hazard and used for weaponry and destruction amongst people. However‚ nuclear energy is more than mere darkness. People do not realize that there is more to nuclear energy than danger.
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Nuclear Proliferation Affecting The World in a Negative Way For the past thirty years‚ Iran and North Korea have been trying to develop and design a nuclear warhead‚ nowadays; American spies say that Iran has built a Uranium enrichment plant on Qum. Uranium enrichment is the hardest step in order to produce nuclear weapon‚ and North Korea has already tested nuclear weapons the past years. This is a way to prove that nuclear proliferation keeps increasing in the world and this could balance the
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source is nuclear power. Nuclear power is a form of energy produced by an atomic reaction‚ which is capable of producing an alternative source of electrical power‚ replacing the energy currently supplied by coal‚ gas‚ or oil. This will help the United States move away from burning fossil fuels and potentially reduce overall pollution. Nuclear power has the potential to be cleaner and cheaper‚ but the United States needs to take serious steps. The United States has tried to use nuclear power before
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THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE The nuclear arms race began during World War II when the United States was informed that the Nazis may be building a weapon of mass destruction‚ the atom bomb. The US‚ realizing that the Nazis could possibly develop this weapon making them unstoppable‚ started its own nuclear weapons program‚ called the Manhattan Project. The US won the first nuclear arms race when they tested the first nuclear weapon on the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico on July 16‚ 1945. Only
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Should DOD Collaborate with NNSA to Modernize the Nuclear Arsenal? I original planned to write a paper that answered the question “Should the Department of Defense (DOD) lead the US’s nuclear arsenal modernization efforts by itself or should that responsibility be shared with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)?” I planned to compare DOD and NNSA’s budget requesting process‚ the actual amounts spent on nuclear modernization among the service branches‚ the NNSA‚ and the national laboratories
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KOODANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station currently under construction in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Project investment cost to India was estimated to be US$ 3.5 billion in a 2001 agreement. History An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20‚ 1988 by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The project remained in limbo for 10 years due
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Should every country have the right to possess nuclear weapons? On the 6th November 1945‚ a United States bomber flew towards the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The only cargo aboard that B-29 bomber was an atomic bomb – ironically nicknamed “Little Boy” - that was to be dropped on its target. At 8.15am and at a height of around 2‚000ft the bomb exploded above Hiroshima‚ taking 140‚000 lives with it. Most of the 140‚000 died instantly‚ horrifyingly the rest of the innocent civilians that were
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