Nuclear Weapons

This a controversial issue which has sparked debate and interest for decades. Although there may be many motives as to the reason why the United States chose to attack Japan with nuclear weapons, the following is my interpretation. America wanted to remain a neutral party during WW2 recognizing that European nations had gotten themselves into another fiasco shortly after American intervention was needed to resolve the first world war in the earlier part of the century. During America's neutrality, it did find the time and effort to send supplies and aid to England and moved its Pacific naval fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor as Japanese aggression in the Pacific grew stronger. The Japanese invasion of China angered Americans which led to sanctions which led to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor which led to America declaring war on all of the Axis nations (Japan, Germany, Italy). The attack on Pearl Harbor angered Americans deeply and the people had a truly powerful reason for hating the Japanese. As war went on with the Japanese and the Germans, America progressed through Europe and the Pacific, gaining key ground and winning key battles. The war in the Pacific was particularly brutal and unforgiving as the Japanese often used guerrilla warfare, suicide operations, and tortured and killed prisoners. There were often times when no Japanese survivors were found because they had either all been killed or had killed themselves before surrender. Needless to say, every inch gained by American forces were paid for with thousands of lives. In 1945, the Germans surrendered and all was lost for the Axis nations. However, Japan kept on a hopeless campaign against America. Americans had been at war for almost four years and the cost and bitterness of war was draining on the people. America took the island of Okinawa (southern island of mainland Japan) and in doing so encountered heavy resistance by soldiers and civilians alike. There is even real live footage of civilians running and jumping off of cliffs to their deaths (babies in hand) to avoid the "savage" Americans that their government told them would rape, torture, and kill them. After Pearl Harbor, savage fighting for four years with little to no humility, tortured and killed prisoners, the United States decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and end the tyranny of the Japanese empire. Some experts estimated that 1,000,000 more American lives would have been lost if a full scale invasion of Japan had to be undertaken. That's almost 3 times the amount of fallen American soldiers in the entire war. The bomb was in my opinion the best way to end the war quickly and preserve life for the majority. To go even further....Japan surprisingly did NOT surrender after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It took 2 atom bombs to bring the Japanese to surrender. It was a terrible loss for the people of Japan but saved hundreds of thousands of American lives along with the lives of all others who suffered at the hands of the Japanese empire.

Four nuclear bombs were constructed and three of these were detonated during World War 2.

The first nuclear bomb was a plutonium implosion bomb, with a yield of about 20 kilotons, exploded northwest of Alamogordo, New Mexico for the Trinity test, July 16, 1945.

A "gun style" uranium-235 bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, 8:16 AM local time, and it exploded at an altitude of 1900 feet with an estimated yield of 12 kilotons. There was only enough U-235 uranium to construct one bomb.

A third nuclear bomb, a more efficient plutonium-implosion device, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, at 11:06 AM local time, and exploded at an altitude of 1650 feet with an estimated yield of 22 kilotons, (which missed its intended target by one and a half miles).

As a result of the two nuclear bomb blasts, there were estimated 120,000 instant fatalities, and, of course, more to follow. Had the Nagasaki bomb not been off target, the fatalities would have been at least 40,000 more.

With the surrender of Japan shortly after the second nuclear blast, World War II ended, and only the three weapons had been deployed.

A fourth nuclear bomb similar to the first and third had been built just before Japan agreed to surrender and shipped from Los Alamos to San Francisco. Before it could be flown from San Francisco to Tinnian for use on Japan, Truman ordered the use of nuclear bombs stopped. This bomb was then returned to Los Alamos, becoming the first bomb in the US postwar nuclear stockpile.

Had the war continued the Manhattan Project had plans, factories, infrastructure, and bombers to build and drop 20 more nuclear bombs on Japan before the end of 1945. Whether or not this rate could have actually been sustained successfully will never be known as only the first 2 of the planned 23 bombing missions were needed. However soon after the war ended the plutonium production rate at Hanford, Washington had to be severely curtailed to limit the extent of radiation damage to the three reactor's graphite moderator that was causing swelling of the graphite and bending the metal tubes that the fuel pellets passed through.

Nuclear power represents about 19.4% (in 2006) of the total electricity generation in the United States. There are 31 states that have nuclear power plants, and the states with the highest percentage of nuclear power are Vermont, New Jersey, South Carolina, Illinois, and Connecticut. See the Nuclear Energy Institute website for additional information. http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_statistics/usnuclearpowerplants/

The Davy Crockett was important in the Cold War Era because the US government wanted to give the infintry the ability to launch a nuclear weapon. Previously the US only had the capability to drop a nueclear device from a plane.

The government didn't believe that the technology existed to minaturize an atomic warhead that would be able to be launched from by the Army infantry. However a group of engineers from Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey made several trips to Washington DC. During these trips they convinced the federal government that this technology was possible and should be funded. On March 7(?), 1961 these 3 men that "sold" Washington on this technology and developed the Davey Crockett-Mr. Schwartz, Epton, and Mayer were given an award from President Kennedy and a $25,000 Reward for service to their country. At this time the US government felt, with this land bases nuclear warhead, that we had the ability to win a ground basesd conflict in Europe against Russia.

In summary the importance of the Davey Crockett was that it gave the US confidence that we could defend an attack by Russia on our allies in Europe. Though never deployed in combat, its technology served as the basis for future generations of missles.

Atomic Bomb or Nuclear Bomb derives its destructive forces from nuclear reactions or fusion... there are 2 nuclear weapons have been detonated- both by the U.S. during the closing days of World War II, The first was detonated on the morning of AUG.6, 1945 on the Japanese City of Hiroshima, and the second was detonated 3 days later at the City of Nagasaki. These bombings results in the immediate deaths of around 120,000 people injured from the explosion and acute radiation sickness.

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The first operational nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus(SSN-571), was developed by the United States. The idea of a submarine dates far back in history, but the technology required to actually build an operational undersea boat is relatively new. Applying nuclear power to this concept is newer still, and it had to wait until nuclear power could be harnessed in the form of a safe and reliable nuclear reactor. A link can be found below for more information.

The first atomic bomb, developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II, was set off on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert.

Possible use by "rogue" nations, groups or individuals.

1944 to 1945, Admiral Rickover.

The poppy.

it isn't useful in any way IT POLLUTES THE WORLD now give us all a favour and start protesting against nuclear power stations

I think that the question is too broad. Was there a specific war or place needed? Sticks, rocks, spears, bow and arrow, guns, machine guns, bazookas, cannons, howitzers, missles, torpedoes, rockets, bombs, hand grenades, mines, knives, swords and anything else that can be used as a weapons was used in the 20th Century.

try it your self 7 trillion inces do the MATH OR TRY IT YOUR SELF i pencil is 7in so 1 trilion x 7=7 trilion

The answer will differ from person to person. From what I've read in a 2008 press release from the Asian Development Bank, it seems a proper public electric grid would be a first step before considering a nuclear plant. It might be better to consider smaller plants of varying types to supply power for the hard-to-get-to places.

nucleomituphobia

This is two separate inventions: the nuclear bomb/warhead and the vertical launch long range rocket. They were separately invented at different times by different people, then mated together to make SRBM, IRBM, SLBM, and ICBM.

Robert Goddard & Werner von Braun both independently invented different vertical launch long range rockets. Leo Szilard invented the fission bomb, Stan Ulam and Edward Teller invented the fusion bomb.

Short answer: no.

One of the treaties in the 1960's banned above ground testing and all countries (the US, Soviet Union, France, and China) have followed that ban. The US and the Soviet Union agreed, in a separate treaty, to stop underground testing in the 1970's and both have followed that treaty. Other countries, India and Pakistan and possibly North Korea, did not agree to ban all testing and have conducted underground nuclear testing in the last ten years.

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Ionising radiation was discovered by Wilhelm Rontgen in 1885

By 1953 the Chinese, under the guise of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, had initiated research leading to the development of nuclear weapons. The decision to develop an independent strategic nuclear force was made no later than early 1956 and was to be implemented within the Twelve-Year Science Plan presented in September 1956 to the Eighth Congress of the CCP. The decision to enter into a development program designed to produce nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems was, in large part, a function of the 1953 technology transfer agreements initiated with the USSR.

In 1951 Peking signed a secret agreement with Moscow through which China provided uranium ores in exchange for Soviet assistance in the nuclear field. In mid-October 1957 the Chinese and Soviets signed an agreement on new technology for national defense that included provision for additional Soviet nuclear assistance as well as the furnishing of some surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles. The USSR also agreed to supply a sample atomic bomb and to provide technical assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The Soviets provided the Chinese with assistance in building a major gaseous diffusion facility for production of enriched uranium. Subsequently the Chinese accused Moscow of having abrogated this agreement in 1959, and having "refused to supply a simple atomic bomb and technical data concerning its manufacture. In the past decade China's growing military capability has attracted a great deal of attention, but details about the current and likely near-future state of China's military power have been in short supply. While it is true that China is modernizing its forces and increasing defense spending, the prospective improvements in overall military capability need to be set against the very low-technology starting point of China's armed forces. The Chinese government says its position on potential war with Iraq is "extremely close" to that of France, which says all possible action must be taken to avoid conflict.

It made war less likely since there was a chance that a nuclear bomb could be launched.