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"). The Bush Administration is currently making an allowance for an advanced plan to continue nuclear weapons testing. ... Without nuclear testing we would be defenseless to other nations that possess more intimidating and constructive weaponry. These are reasons why nuclear testing should be practiced but there are also reasons why this testing is harmful in many ...

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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). ...

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The policy effectively excluded non-European immigration as in 1905 a dictation test was introduced given the reason it was to ensure people had a suitable level of education. The test was given to people who were seen as "unsuitable" and it required the migrant to write down a fifty word passage dictated in any obscure European language. ...

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The Moroccan crisis between France and Germany proved to be one "testing ground" for French allies Britain and Russia. While this "test" implemented by Germany never materialized into an actual battle, it was a telling and tense situation while it existed, and Germany was able to then gauge these powerful allies" abilities and shortcomings and preparedness for conflict. ...

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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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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. ...

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The four articles that were assigned test different variables of the economic question and some defined and tested their argument better than the others. ... He test argument with historical data that included the Romans who he states that by "making their wars with iron, they never suffered the want of gold, for it was brought to them even into their camp, by those who feared them" (230). ...

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Proactive steps to prevent such a take over from happening as propaganda would spread across America leading to a romanticized relationship between this fear of the spread of communism and at the same time, ensuring domestic support for support nuclear weapons testing and proliferation.9 But as the scare wore on, a new school of Cold War Historiography emerged that would challenge the foundation of the accepted traditional view of why the conflict existed; and the two schools would sharply differ from one another. As the 1950's ended and the world entered the bedlam of the 1960's, t...

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Biological Warfare In the article, "Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat," the author, Zachary Selden, approaches the threat that the United States has towards the use of biological weapons and the measures as to which the world community is fighting it. In detail, he alerts the reader abo...

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Australians were born and bred into servitude, first to mother England as cannon fodder in World War 1 and then as a testing ground for nuclear weapons. ... He goes into great detail about the blind devotion of former Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and the blatant exploitation of Australia's land, through atomic bomb tests, and its people, through various wars often fought on the other side of the world. ...

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How did the shifts in relations between the superpowers in the 1970s and the 1980s affect Europe? Since the explosion of the first Soviet nuclear bomb in 1949 and the Hydrogen bomb in 1953, both the East and West had been tied in an arms race attempting to secure a military advantage over the ot...

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Unfortunately, the Regiment's reputation was eventually put to the test landing them in the enemy stronghold of Jackson Heights, Korea. ... This austere condition tested the men of G Company as they resisted two days of probing attacks by their opposition. ...

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On June 28th 1914, a Bosnian terrorist group known as the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. This act was the event that essentially sparked the beginning of World War I. However, the assassination was not the one and only reason behind such a massive conflict. There were...

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Weapons of Mass Destruction Currently the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons, provides the most serious threat to international security. Public opinion over proliferation has varied widely over the past five decades, ranging from mass hysteria during the...

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The end of the WW2, saw Russia and America emerging as the two strongest allied nations. However, even before the closing stages of the war, competition between these two nations was brewing, fueled by ambitions on both sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. ...

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Hiroshima On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomb entitled Enola Gay soared over the industrialized city of Hiroshima, Japan and released the first atomic bomb; killing approximately eighty thousand citizens. Sixty percent of Hiroshima was destroyed. A second atomic bomb entitled Fat Man wa...

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Germany, certain that the entente cordiale was not a strong alliance however, decided to test it by interfering with France's attempt to acquire Morocco as a colony, causing the first Moroccan crisis. ...

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In the book Night, by Ellie Wiesel, is an autobiography about the author's experience and difficulties during the Holocaust that occurred during World War Two; however, in the book Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Album, the story about a student visiting his old professor, who was diagnosed with ALS,...

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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the untold story On August 6th 1945, the first Atomic Bomb, "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima, and three days later on August 9th 1945, the second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan's industrial capital. 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. When the Japanese ...

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Japanese wanted to destroy the US' Pacific Fleet in order to clear the way to conquer Southeast Asia - US reacts by declaring war on Japan and inspiring men to enlist in the armed forces, creates a battle cry, General Kimmal forced to retire, America bombs major Japanese cities in revenge The Home front (life in the US during the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers, armored cars, trucks, light vehicles, rifles and side-arms, machine guns, artillery and ammo were produced in factories - production during the...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent t...

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At first, the British considered the Anzacs to be ill-disciplined soldiers with boisterous characteristics (Andrews 1993, p.106) but the Anzac's proved that even in the most testing of conditions, that 'undeveloped' countries could generate men equal to any other man in the world, perhaps even produce the greatest army the world has ever seen. ...

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NSC 68 (and NSC 48) policies would be put to the test first in Korea as they fitted the outline of a nation, "in their deepest peril," subjected to threat of the Soviet Union achieve[ing] its fundamental design....

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The definition of weapons proliferation is the rapid increase in the number and destructive capabilities of armaments. Weapons proliferation is a huge problem for the entire world; however it has been a problem since World War I. There was an arms race between Germany and Great Britain that lead t...

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