The Nuclear Freeze Movement

            "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever." - Thomas A. Edison. This devastating force is known today as the nuclear or atomic bomb. It has enough power to erase entire city populations in mere seconds as well as level all buildings in the surrounding area. Nuclear bombs incinerate people leaving a bleak shadow of their existence imprinted onto surrounding slabs of concrete. The human race has now developed a weapon with such destruction, of which the minds of our ancestors had never conceived. The use of such a nonsensical weapon clearly defies all of the work put into creating and developing modern civilization. Therefore, the assembly and deployment of all types of nuclear weapons must stop at a global level before world annihilation.
             The first nuclear bomb, created in July of 1945, was the results of the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was lead by Robert Oppenheimer, a California professor of Theoretical Physics appointed weapons director of the project in July of 1943, and the Manhattan Projects primary purpose was to produce a workable atomic weapon before the Germans. In the city of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the Manhattan Project's production of the bomb began in Oppenheimer's lab. The finished project was demonstrated at 5:29 on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexican desert area code-named Trinity also known as Alamogordo, New Mexico. This first nuclear device used plutonium produced from a uranium and graphite-pile reactor in Richland, Washington. The results of this test far exceeded the scientists" expectations. A month later, a highly enriched uranium nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was dropped on August 6, 1945.