After excessive purification, a weapon was beginning to take shape. ... Two years, three months, and sixteen days was all it took for the Los Alamos Lab to develop the first nuclear weapon. After the successful test at Trinity, it was then time to adapt the weapon for a practical use, actually converting it into a bomb. ... The Enola Gay approached Hiroshima and dropped its colossal weapon. ... Now, a continuing controversy arises to question the need for the actual use of the atomic weapons without any fair warning. ...

• Word Count: 2170
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• Grade Level: High School

The Americans logic was that without access to goods and money, and other supplies such as oil, Japan would have to put a leash on their imperialism that threatened China. ... Japan relied on their new weapon, the aircraft carrier. ... The main weapon for the ships was the torpedo, which was specially modified for the Pearl Harbor attack. ... Also, the Pearl Harbor attack left the naval base's most important amenities - oil storage depots, submarine docks, repair shops, shipyards – unharmed (MacMillian). ...

• Word Count: 1943
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The most advanced and skilled scientists in America were grouped together to secretly create a new military weapon. And after this new weapon was tested on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, it was decided that this new weapon would be used against the Japanese instead of the invasions. ... Anticipating Japan's refusal, the United States had secretly authorized the transportation of a part of their new war weapon, an atomic bomb, to leave from San Fransciso on a battleship. ...

• Word Count: 2436
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• Grade Level: High School

An example of a hard power exercising military forces can be the invasion of Iraq by the US in 2003 over the concern of Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (UCLA International Institute, 2014). ... The sanctions were created to limit the US' investment in Iran's oil fields. ...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate