In 1954, Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, called for a worldwide comprehensive test ban treaty. ... The leaders of the three countries came together and settled on the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). ... They were able to continue the nuclear arms race by intensifying their underground nuclear testing programs. France and China, which did not sign the PTBT, did conduct tests in the atmosphere until 1974 and 1980. ... The NPT has become the most widely-adhered to arms control treaty in history. ...

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If I was asked the question, "Do you think that the study of history is important?" ... If we do not study history, we would not have an identity. ... One thing I do not appreciate about history is the way it is taught in schools. ... Many lives are saved due to history. There can be many discoveries alike that have been tested and people have been killed, so when similar discoveries are found the necessary precautions are taken into mind. ...

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When you look at History you might just think that history does repeat itself, probably thinking of the First World War and Second World War, because that is what I thought at first, but then I looked deeper and realized that I was completely wrong, history does not repeat itself. ... History is the written records of the past, but there can be more than one version of the event. ... On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had neve...

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The idea of a nuclear bomb amid a precarious world prone to wars was marked as a watershed in the history of warfare. ... It was one of the most devastating attacks in the history of mankind with its effects lasting for generations. ... 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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At that time in history the Cold War was at its prime state and America's fear of the Communists was at an all time high. ... Another major concern for the United States was that they were no longer alone in the nuclear market because they had learned that the Soviet Union had also created and tested atomic bombs. ... When they tested Semyorka with a dummy warhead, it was destroyed while entering back into the earth's atmosphere. ... One thing that really came of age during this point in history that would be impossible to ignore is the threat of spies and what that particular fear ...

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"The Manhattan Project ranks as the largest industrial and scientific effort in the history of the world, costing more than $2 billion in 1945 dollars and involving more than 175,000 workers. ... They tested the bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. ... They used one for testing and The United States still have one for use. ...

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Hiroshima was such a pivotal moment in history because the United States of America did in fact decide to drop the first nuclear bomb upon a defiant Japan, on a City named Hiroshima Even before the war commenced in 1939 American scientists became increasingly concerned with Nazi Germany and their efforts on nuclear weapon research. ... 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...

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Just three weeks after the leading test on august 6, a second atomic bomb was detonated, this time over the municipality of Hiroshima. ... In the Nuclear Age, there has been a fearful stimulate of the conflicts between the drives of violence and the forces of reason, between savageness and respect, that have been throughout human history. ... In the 50 years since history's first atomic explosion, the promises and perils of nuclear science have touched nearly every aspect of our culture and politics. ... The first nuclear weapon was built and tested in the United States. ... The first bom...

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The single most important event since 1877 in United States history was the Manhattan Project, the project to create the Atomic Bomb. ... 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...

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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Four square miles of the city was reduced to rubble and more than 80,000 innocent civilians were killed on impact. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days...

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In these respects, the United States was justified in using the most powerful weapon of the time to end the greatest conflict in human history. Before the successful testing of the atomic bomb, the United States had an elaborate set of plans for the invasion of Japan that were developed in the spring and summer of 1945. According to Davis, in "The Invasion Not Found in the History Books," an article found in the Omaha World Herald, Operation Olympic would begin with "X-Day" on November 1, 1945, and would land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ev...

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In these respects, the United States was justified in using the most powerful weapon of the time to end the greatest conflict in human history. Before the successful testing of the atomic bomb, the United States had an elaborate set of plans for the invasion of Japan that were developed in the spring and summer of 1945. According to Davis in the Invasion Not Found in the History Books, an article found in the Omaha World Herald, Operation Olympic would begin with "X-Day" on November 1, 1945, and would land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ever a...

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The project was revealed to Truman by his Secretary of War Henry Stimson with this cautionary forward: "In four months, we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon known in human history, one bomb of which could destroy a whole city. ... Though the test bombing in Alamogordo, New Mexico, had given them an idea of the blast radius and the effect on the land, no one could have determined the effect on humans, short or long term. ...

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The Manhattan Project was notably one of the most imperative elements of American History. ... Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and test the atomic weaponry on the Japanese cities. ...

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When at the Potsdam meeting with Stalin and Churchill, Truman received word of the great success of the Trinity test. ... With the dropping of the atomic bomb, American's got their revenge, and World War II was on its way to becoming a part of history. ...

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