The development of the atomic bomb and chemical warfare forever changed the way people saw the world. It was a landmark in time for which there was no turning back. The constant balancing of the nuclear super powers kept the whole of humankind on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Fear of nuclear winter and the uncertainty of radiation created its own form of a cultural epidemic in the United States. During these tense times in human history officials made controversial decisions such as the bombings
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History of the Atomic Model Just as we once believed that the earth was flat‚ our understanding of the atom was once extremely limited. As time passes‚ we begin to discover more and more about the world we live in. We have come to know much about the atom over the past two hundred years through the work of numerous brilliant scientists. Throughout history‚ scientists have come up with many experiments and atomic models to explain the atoms all around us‚ all leading up to our modern understanding
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consequences it had on the world. But do you ever take the time to think about how this war really ended? It obviously had to have taken a very powerful army or leader‚ but that wasn’t the case. What really caused this national turmoil to come to an end was the dropping of the most deadly weapon known to mankind: the atomic bomb. The year is 1939‚ and a world war is on the rise. America really wanted to create a weapon that they could use if worse comes to worse. Albert EInstein had written
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The History of Atomic Theory Atomos: Not to Be Cut The atomic model has changed throughout the centuries starting in 400 BC‚ when it looked like a billiard ball. Democritus: 400 BC The question: Can matter be divided into smaller particles? Or can it be infinitely divided? Matter can be divided into the smallest piece‚he named it “atomos”: not to be cut. Said that atoms were small‚ hard particles that were all made of the same material but were different shapes and sizes. Atoms were
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Tellurium Many historians believed that Franz Joseph Müller von Reichstein was born around 1740’s to 1742 in the Habsburg Empire‚ which later became known as the Austro-Hungary Empire. Müller had many different positions in the Austria-Hungary administration; but he’s most known for being a mineralogist and skilled miner. He started his rode to success by becoming a Markscheider (official mine surveyor)‚ which then lead him to become an Hüttenwerke (royal commission for mining in the Banat). These
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Hiroshima: Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb a Military Necessity? On the morning of August 6th‚ 1945 at around 8:16 a.m.‚ the United States dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima. This bomb was given the nickname “Little Boy.” Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped‚ on August 9th‚ 1945 at around 11:02 a.m.‚ the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This bomb was given the nickname “Fat Man.” These two bombs immensely destroyed these cities and took the lives of many people
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everything happens for a reason”. When president Truman and his advisors made the decision to drop the atomic bomb‚ they thought it would end the war. The dropping of the atomic atomic bomb had many successful tactics. It created great peace for the US from the fact that it ended total war. After the US had lost millions to the war‚ it was ready to make a change to end all war. Good things did come from the atomic bomb‚ like the fact that it ended World War II. The amount of peace for the US got for dropping
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Dalton‚ English chemist: • Proposed the atomic patterns‚ which account for the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition • All matter is made of atoms; atoms of an element are identical; each element has different atoms; atoms of different elements combine in constant ratios to form compounds; atoms are rearranged in reactions. • “Billiard ball’ model – atoms are solid and indivisible THE ATOMIC THEORY TIMELINE 500 B.C Greek philosophes
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Why did the Truman Administration decide to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945? There has been much debate as to why Truman elected to drop the atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945. Historians have long debated the true purpose to which the atomic bombs were designed to fulfil upon there deployment. The Alperovitz thesis of the 1960 was accepted for many years. The thesis revolved around the idea that the atomic weapons were deployed as diplomatic tools to intimidate
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Atomic Bomb DBQ In August of 1945‚ the United States launched two atomic bombs on Japan; the first‚ in Hiroshima on August 6‚ and the second in Nagasaki a few days later. Despite the obvious diplomatic advantage to implementing one of the most intimidating weapons of that time‚ the United States’ tactics and goals behind dropping the atomic bombs were purely military oriented; the political benefit was merely an added bonus. The atomic bomb was necessary due to the Japanese’s refusal to surrender
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