Essay On Atomic Bomb Testing

One interesting event from 1960 was the testing of the first atomic bomb by France. Between 1960 and 1966, seventeen bombs were tested by France. These bombs leaked radioactive materials that are still affecting citizens near the bomb sites in the Sahara Desert. It is estimated that hundreds of soldiers and nearly thirty million civilians were knowingly exposed to the radioactive areas. The bomb testings and radioactive exposure were reportedly meant to “study physiological and psychological effects on humans in order to obtain necessary information to physically and mentally prepare modern warriors of France”. The radioactivity reached as far as the Spanish and Sicilian coasts to the north and the Nigerian and Central African Republic to the
The United States and the Soviet Union fought to send the first human to space. Russia pulled ahead early in the game with the successful launch of the first manmade satellite, Sputnik 1 in 1957. On the twelfth of April in 1961, The Soviet Union finally won the race to space when they sent Yuri Gagarin to space in the spacecraft Vostok 1. Prior to the launch however the Soviets sent a prototype of the Vostok 1 with a life sized dummy, Ivan Ivanovich, and his companion a dummy dog named Zvezdochka. With the success of the dummy launch, the spacecraft was deemed fit for a human to travel to
As people watched on their televisions, they saw a sleek, well groomed Kennedy walk into the studio, followed by an appearingly ill Nixon. According to the polls, anyone who watched the debate on television declared Kennedy the winner because he looked the part of a president and spoke like a president, but anyone who listened to the debate on their radio claimed that Nixon had won the debate because of his solid arguments and reasonings. The polls taken after the televised debates strongly supported the theory that the visual medium greatly benefited Kennedy in the