Global Implications of Nuclear Weapons and Treaties There are two major treaties in the world today involving nuclear testing. ... 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. ...

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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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Concerns about Germany developing the atomic bomb before the United States prompted the United States to start building test and production facilities across the country, code named the Manhattan Project, installations were erected in Tennessee, New York, Washington, New Mexico, and Illinois. ... The plutonium bomb was successfully tested at the Alamogardo bombing range on July 16th, 1945. The test produced an explosion the equivalent to 20 000 tons of TNT, and exceeded the expectations most scientist working on the project. ...

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THE ATOMIC CAFÉ VISUALS: Lewis Strauss, Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission is speaking publicly about the unforeseen change in wind direction after the blast of another test bomb and its effects. ... There were radiation tests done to the fish at hand with an archaic device. ...

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If Japan was almost beaten by August 1945, many say that the reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was simply to test it on living humans. Aside from the ground test in the New Mexico desert, no one knew what destruction atomic weapons were capable of. ... One could wonder if the motive behind this second attack was similar to the first; the only difference being that the bomb to be "tested" this time was considerably more powerful. ... For example, the atomic bomb was tested in Trinity Site, New Mexico, USA. ...

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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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1 What is an atomic bomb? The answer is a bomb whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of atomic energy resulting from the splitting of nuclei of a heavy chemical element by neutrons in a very rapid chain reaction. The Manhattan Project produced "Little Man" and "Fat Man", two ...

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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. ...

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• Testing whether their bomb actually worked and to what extent. ... They chose to do this to for several reasons including: • To test whether the atomic bombs would actually work and to what extent of the impact would have. ...

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Weapons of Mass Destruction The creation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction should be stopped, and those weapons that exist today should be destroyed. There are many reasons that these weapons do much more harm than good, and we would be doing the environment and the fat...

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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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Just three weeks after the leading test on august 6, a second atomic bomb was detonated, this time over the municipality of Hiroshima. ... The first nuclear weapon was built and tested in the United States. ... The first bomb was exploded in a field test at Alamogordo air base in South New Mexico. ...

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The first one was a test model named "Gadget," while the other two "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" where used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Countries started an arm race involving nuclear weapons and so did India. 18th of May 1974, India carried out its initial and first test in Pokhran, Rajasthan northwestern state. On May 11and 13, 1998 India set off five nuclear devices in the same test site, and from this moment India became one of the few countries owning nuclear weapons. ...

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A Summary of The Nuclear Weapons Cleanup Abstract Many people feel that nuclear weapons have served as a security mechanism for our nation. At what point is the security of our nation at more risk by having nuclear weapons and their wastes? The Hanford Nuc...

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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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If I was asked the question, "Do you think that the study of history is important?" at first I would say no. But If I really got down to thinking about it, I would probably say yes. As much as most people do not like it and find it boring, it does serve an immense purpose. If we never study histo...

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Second, another possible outcome is that Iran could be disallowed from embarking on the test of the weapon, but be allowed to build up the break out capability just as it is the case in Japan. ... The third possible outcome is that Iran can go ahead against all adversaries to test the weapon which both the United States and Israel have absolutely declared unacceptable although the writer points out a fact that if Iran does, all other states will move on eventually as they have always done in the past. ...

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The question is whether to drop or not to drop atomic bombs on Japan. On August 6th and 9th of 1945 U.S. bombers dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing utter destruction and many deaths. These bombs were dropped as the Pacific battles of World War II were com...

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Decision to Drop the Bomb Essay "Today the guns are silent, the Skies no longer rain death-the seas bear only commerce-men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is at peace- General Macarthur (September 2, 1945) The years that encompassed the last great World War, chroni...

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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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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 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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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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Prompt and Utter Destruction Since the end of World War II, the world has developed in many ways and has moved on from the destruction of the past. The infamous catastrophes of the war kick started many advancements in technology and the way of human life today. Unfortunately, the world's progr...

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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 never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware of them. ...

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