Several individuals within the Pentagon strongly believe that testing of nuclear weapons will become more crucial as the size of the United States arsenal is reduced ("President Bush Considers Resumption of Nuclear Weapons Testing"). ... These are reasons why nuclear testing should be practiced but there are also reasons why this testing is harmful in many different ways. ... The DOE is actively involved in several assignments, like passing laws and engaging in community clean-ups, to better environmental conditions around our country and others ("People and the Environment"). ... Every sin...

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Us became the first nuclear power and bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, killing 129000 people instantly. ... After the Sino-Indian war, India intensified its Nuclear program as a deterrence against China and tested its first nuclear device in 1974. Pakistan also carried out Nuclear tests in 1998, a fortnight after India carried out nuclear tests for the second time. ...

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France and the People's Republic of China were the last of the five to sign in 1992, while Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States signed in 1968. ... In fact, in 2001, Jack Crouch II, then a nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, said with regard to nuclear testing, "I think that considering the resumption of testing is something that the administration ought to consider (clw.org)."" ... Some hard-liners like Jesse Helms (R-NC) have called upon the Bush Administration to "repudiate" the CTBT; others such as Jim Bunning (R-KY) want new ...

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Currently there are no international laws banning nuclear weapons, but there are restrictions on testing these weapons. There is a treaty to ban nuclear testing world wide, to establish inspections, and establish a network of monitoring stations to identify these situations. ... The global community would find it prudent if India adhered to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), it would also bring their government several advantages. ... For instance, if India does not adhere, the government keeps on testing; Pakistan would match test for test. ... When India tested a nuclear explo...

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The efforts of all the facilities eventually culminated in a test of the first atomic bomb, which took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The bomb created a crater at the test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching 7.5 miles into the air (Wikipedia). ... On August 9, the atomic bomb "Fat Man" was detonated over Nagasaki, resulting in an inst...

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The code name for this bombing was called "The Manhattan Project" The United States concealed this project until after its completion of building and testing of this type of bomb, and atomic bomb. Tests conducted in the desert at an area they called Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Dead) near New Mexico. These tests were conducted on July 16, 1945, not even a month before they were to be used on Japan. ... On August 9th, 1945, a second Atomic bomb was dropped on the city, Nagasaki, killing 40,000 people instantly, causing Japan to surrender. ... Radiation exposure to people who we...

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Then on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan project had its very first successful drop. Although the Trinity test was a success, the allied powers already had defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan, however, announce they would fight until the bitter end despite the very slim chances they had of winning. ... Hiroshima was a manufacturing center of approximately 350,000 people located 500 miles from Japans capital Tokyo, was selected because it not only held an important military base, but also it had not been targeted by conventional bombing raids, a...

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Another reason as to why terrorists would choose BW's over nuclear weapons is the fact that it takes only a short couple of days to produce a small amount of chemical to kill hundred of thousands of people. ... So far, the simulated tests being worked with have failed desolately. ...

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The emotional relationship between Russia and Crimea affected how people perceive foreign policy. ... The world has frustrated Obama's goal of a nuclear free world. the greatest irony is that the United State has finally admitted that Russian has violated the Reagan INF treaty by testing long range ballistic missiles which are banned by INF. in fact, Russian have tested two mid-range missile that have a cruise speed of more than 5500 kilometers (Juyan, 2010). ...

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The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. ... The retention of the Emperor was crucial to the surrender, as the Japanese believed their Emperor was a god, the heart of the people and the culture (Long). ... According to the surrender agreement, "the authority that deceived the people into embarking on world conquest must be eliminated from Japan" (Long). ... The Japanese officials a...

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People began to worry about terrorist acquisition of more deadly and dangerous weapons: namely nuclear weapons. ... The United States has begun eliminating treaties that are no longer pertinent, including their withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missiles Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. ...

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In 1964 Peoples Republic of China too exploded an atomic device. ... The gravity of the problem of nuclear proliferation can be judged from the fact that despite signing the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963 the USA, USSR, and UK continued with their underground nuclear explosions. ...

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The research, studying and testing of this atomic bomb received the code name the Manhattan project. ... So on Aug. 6, 1945 the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, "causing death or serious injury to about 160,000 people," (HIST, 426) then later there was a second bomb dropped on, "Nagasaki killing between 60,000 and 80,000 people," (HIST, 426). ... More often than not whenever there is a decision made that involves tax dollars, military, people's lives or really the United States in general, people have some kind of opinion and sometimes the popular opinion is not i...

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Gojira is a science-fiction/horror film around a mutant animal from the Jurassic period with atomic forces, brought to life as an after-effect of the nuclear blast and close-by atomic bomb testing. ... Indicated just in vast scale scenes of hospitals besieged with injured individuals, the depersonalized depiction of the victimized people makes a separation with the viewer and gives the impression of only the outcome of an expansive catastrophe. ... For instance, in the daily paper press room, the news people talk about Dr. ... " This sort of personalization with the victimized people in t...

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At the time, China possessed only a fraction of nuclear weapons in their arsenal and first tested their nuclear weapons only five years prior to the Zhenbao Island incident. ... National security analyst Jeffrey Nyquist held the assumption that the border clashes between China and the USSR and the "aircraft accident" of alleged conspirator Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Lin Biao were allegedly staged incidents meant to provoke the West. ...

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The search for knowledge has been the lifelong pursuit of countless people. ... With the help of Seaborg and other renowned intellects on the Manhattan project, the United States was successful in creating and testing the first atomic bomb. ...

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The nuclear race between India and Pakistan lead to underground tests in both countries. ... Removing Saddam Hussein from power was a huge step not only for national and global security, but also for the security of the Iraqi people. ...

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Limited participation in direct hostilities (during the war years the number of American troops did not exceed one million, and the population at that time was approximately 110 million people), and also the most active and significant maintenance of industrial and financial basis of the fight against fascism contributed to the extraordinary growth of economic power of America. ... Even more significant were the casualties of the Soviet Union - over 27 million people. ... The Soviet Union had a very large and efficient army in the world at the end of the war, according to various estimates, i...

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The Americans attempted to compromise by proposing to send small contingents of troops to the French coast in order to test Germanys strength. ... They looted and destroyed 40,000 hospitals and medical centers, 84,000 schools and colleges, 43,000 public libraries (which contained approximately 110,000,000 volumes), 44,000 theaters, 2,800 churches and 427 museums.8 Additionally, the Soviet Union desired to maintain its Eastern and South-Eastern European territory in order to create a united Slavic people. ... The Nazi government had bankrupted Germany in an attempt to exterminate the Slavic pe...

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Next, I will look at terrorist and their motivations for harming innocent people along with a list of unconventional weapons that terrorist have used. ... In May 1998, India and Pakistan both performed underground testing of a nuclear bomb. ... Wounding thousands and killing twelve people. ... Biological weapons use pathogens and toxins to infect large amounts of people. ... Up to 40% of people who catch the virus will die within the first two weeks, and there is no vaccine because it has to administered before the virus is contracted. ...

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