The Hiroshima atomic destruction remains a historical uncertainties and ethical dilemmas. The use of atomic bombs marked forever the relationship between the US and Japan‚ and the controversy over the use of atomic weapons will no doubt continue indefinitely. Historiography and comments on the issue are gigantic. Each generation of Americans and Japanese revisited the issue‚ and the following will no doubt continue. Indeed‚ the moral justification for the destruction of two Japanese cities is clear
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Though the discovered by accident‚ gunpowder changed the trajectory of combat operations. Discovered in the ninth century Chinese alchemist developed something with the potential of conquering nations. Gunpowder is used in many weapons throughout history and to this day‚ but one of the first was flying fire. With the simple invention of the gunpowder cannon‚ a totally new type of defense was unearthed. When the devastating power of the cannon was shrunken down into a handheld weapon‚ the course of
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enacted Project Plowshare‚ a project that sought to use nuclear detonations for civil geographical projects. Edward Teller was one of the project’s most avid supporters‚ who viewed the ease in which nuclear explosions was the gateway to geographic engineering that would allow people to change the earth’s surface to suit their needs (Kirsch‚ pg.4). Though Teller was not a member of Project Plowshare‚ Teller would often use his image of a ‘public scientist to build support for the project such as promising
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“Notes of the Interim Committee Meeting‚ May 31‚1945”‚ the author stated that‚ “General Marshall was certain that we need have no fear that the Russians‚ if they had knowledge of our project‚ would disclose this information to the Japanese”(Edsitement). Russia would have told Japan if they found out about the project‚ Japan probably would not have surrendered. The US then found a way to keep Russia from talking by keeping a political relationship with
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Many would suspect at the time that he was working on a German project to develop an atomic bomb. Hahn though‚ never worked on Germany’s atomic project like others thought. Instead of spending time working on a bomb‚ he spent most of his time studying radioactive isotopes. Unfortunately‚ Hahn and nine other German scientists were taken into custody by Great
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the first nuclear bomb test? Plutonium 2. What was the nickname of the airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb? . Fat Man . 3. Which president authorized creation of the atomic bomb? Harry Truman 4. What was the code name of the project to develop the atomic bomb? Trinity 5. What process generates the heat and energy in present day nuclear power plants? nuclear fusion 6. When was the last U.S. nuclear bomb test? 1991 7. How many nuclear power plants are in operation
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In 1979‚ Miyako Ishiuchi received the Kimura Ihei‚ the most notable Photography Award in Japan‚ which brought her international recognition for her captivating post-war japanese photography. Many years later‚ with much more artwork in her portfolio‚ the Getty Museum in Los Angeles opened an exhibition with the largest collection of her work outside of Japan (Tate). This is where I encountered and became enamoured with her dynamic work. Miyako Ishiuchi’s emotional and intimate photo’s express her
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Final Project 1960 Time Capsule Kaplan University January 12‚ 2014 After receiving a very intriguing call from my colleagues‚ about a great time capsule find‚ I made my immediate departure for a little place we call the Red Zone previously known as Colorado. As I arrive I help my colleagues to unearth a time capsule from the period of the 1960s. We carefully opened the capsule that had intrigued us all so much to find five articles inside that told a great story of our past and of the decade
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WW2 was a very bloody war and it was kind of good for America because it gave women the chance to have jobs and not just be a stay at home mom/wife. On september 16‚1940 congress passed the first peacetime military act‚ This act ordered men from the ages of 21-35 to be trained for battle in 12 months but that was before Pearl Harbor had gotten attacked. After Pearl Harbor congress passed the Selective Service Act which extended drafting to 18-38 years to join the military‚ But men 18-65 had no
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in the early 1970’s with the theory of pulsations. He formulized the mathematical analysis of gravitational waves. From the 1980’s to the 2000s‚ Kip co-founded the LIGO‚ which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. “This project targeted Gravitational Wave sources that were worthy of study”. Over the next couple years‚ he has renewed and advanced the LIGO system. With the help of a girl named Anna Zytkow‚ Kip predicted the existence of red supergiant stars that have neutron
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