By: Lee Eisler Period 3

In July 16,1945, the biggest scientific experiment of the 20 th century occurred: the test blast of the atomic bomb. It occurred at 5:29 A.M. The Nuclear Era essentially began on August 6, 1945, the day that ended WWII, but it was 25 centuries in the making. The Manhattan Project, the top secret compound hidden in the forested foothills of the Rocky Mountains, started the atomic research and built the first atomic bombs that were used in war and the first atomic test bombs.

On August 6, 1945, we dropped the 1 st atomic bomb on Hiroshima and 3 days later we days later we dropped another on on Nagasaki. After a nuclear blast the region become uninhabitable- the area becomes full of radiation, it destroys the land, humans, animals, and plant life. There are 2 types of explosions- fusion and fission- fusion bombs are more powerful than fission bombs. Nukes have a destructive force 1 million times greater than TNT The successor to the atomic bomb was the hydrogen bomb

Deaths From Atomic Bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

Democritus- suggested that matter could be divided in to finer and finer pieces until a fundamental unit was reached. John Dalton- described atoms as the unique constituents if the chemical elements. Antoine Henri Becquerel- discovered radioactivity by exposing photographic film to uranium. Radiation is the energy given off by atoms. Marie and Pierre Curie- realized that uranium ore contained more radioactivity than could be accounted for by the uranium itself.

Albert Einstein- began publishing equations describing the atom and the forces controlling it. For the first time, he treated matter and energy as interchangeable. German and Austrian scientists- Berlin bombarded uranium with neutrons and detected the emergence of much lighter elements. Lise Meitner- determined the uranium atoms had split. She named the reaction fission.

Albert Einstein

We are at War With Iraq. We Have been at war with Iraq since last Wednesday March 19, On that day we fired thousands of satellite tomahawk cruise missiles and bunker-busters from the surrounding seas toward Baghdad. Now we have sent in hundreds of ground troops into Iraq and they are making their way to Baghdad. The Infantries are armed with hundreds of heavy armored tanks. We are trying to disarm nuclear nations. That is one thing we are trying to do with Iraq.

Many dislike that we have gone to war with Iraq. There are a lot of nukes in the world today. Nuclear weapons and the materials needed to make them are more easily accessible today than before. We have reason to believe that terrorist organizations have nuclear capabilities. More and more nations are becoming nuclear nations- U.S., Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea, and others.

There are plenty of reasons for the U.S. going to war with Iraq- Nukes, unwillingness to disarm, to liberate the people, terrorist ties, disarming them, and speculation of chemical/biological weapon capabilities. They wont disarm because of fear- if they disarm they would be powerless to defend themselves and feel weaker and not at the same level as the other countries. They also keep nuclear weapons because they are a sadistic regime.

There are many reasons why countries keep nuclear weapons- fear, power, pride, glory, distrust, and different views on things. Countries fear other countries that have nuclear weapons and they fear that if they don’t have nuclear weapons there will be a more likely chance that they will be attacked and they will have nothing to fight back with. Ever since the beginning of time people have wanted power. Also with radical thinkers in the world makes us have to keep the nuclear weapons

We are trying to disarm nuclear nations. Right now we are trying to disarm Iraq- we have sent in UN inspectors and set restrictions for Iraq. We are going into Iraq and trying to over throw Saddam. We are trying to make them disarm using force. We gave Iraq an ultimatum- to disarm or to feel our wrath. Now, North Korea has announced that they are a nuclear nation. When they did we sent some troops off of their coast just incase something happened.

The ultimate outcome of having nuclear nations is going to be war. We are going to go to war because of nuclear weapons and then someone is going to use them in the war because the are radical, irrational leaders. I don’t think it will happen anytime soon, but when it does in the future it is quite possible that the technology for these weapons will be better making them a lot more powerful then they already are.

When this happens and they are used in war, for some reason or another, no country will stop using them until the other is pummeled into the ground and is completely destroyed- this will bring about the end of the world. More and more counties are becoming nuclear nations and there are radical thinkers coming to power in some of these countries- with that there is chance of a nuclear war breaking out at any time.

More UN inspectors, inspecting every nuclear nation. Destroying all knowledge of the bomb and how to create them- brings problem, then we lose technology and the lost technology could help us some day in the future. Disarm every single nuclear nation. Banned all nuclear weapons. Put restrictions and regulations on nations regarding nuclear weapons.

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