Nuclear Detonation In The United States During The Cold War

2)During the Cold War, several factors discouraged the use of nuclear weapons. One of those factors includes having disarmament talks. The limit of missiles was agreed to as well. Several others had agreed to a limit on the number of nuclear weapons. 3)During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each

Without any regulations on the expansions of their nuclear arsenals, both sides became interlocked into a deadly nuclear arms. “The Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949, this made American stockpiles of nuclear bombs seem unconvincing, and the development of hydrogen bombs became relevant” (Swift). This would prompt both nations to build up nuclear stockpiles, as one nation gained a stronger and more powerful weapon the other would follow suit, in the name of having a better defensive against the other. Each nation rose one another in the race and would eventually escalate them to a breaking point. “Within John F. Kennedy’s presidency, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962” (Swift). In order to combat this, Kennedy exercised MAD, which foresaw the equal destruction of both sides. This became the essential turning point for political leaders and citizens of both nations, they were both bound to destroy one another. Upon agreement, the U.S.S.R dismantled its nuclear arsenal in Cuba, while the U.S did the same to theirs in Turkey. Kennedy and Khrushchev took many measures in de-escalating nuclear proliferation in order to avoid another near disaster similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The installation of Salt 1, which regulated missile stockpiles, became the first step in relieving the tensions of a nuclear

The dropping of the atomic bomb was the first of many nuclear projects. The first project was called the Manhattan project. Three bombs were created, one was a test, and the two others were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities in Japan. These bombs created mass destruction for the two cities; buildings were obliterated, fires erupted, and radiation spread for miles. After foreign countries saw what the United States was capable of, countries all around the world started to develop their own nuclear weapons, creating a surplus of weapons of mass destruction. “Today, eight countries in the world have nuclear arsenals (weapon supplies). The United States and Russia (formerly part of the Soviet Union) have most of the world’s nuclear weapons. Other countries with nuclear arms include China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom” (Kroenig). Following World War Two, the Soviet Union and the United States were leaders of nuclear weapons. This period was called the Cold War. Forty-five years of potential nuclear destruction loomed over the Soviets and Americans. It wasn’t until after the Cold War that diplomats created the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, or NPT for short, recognizes the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom as nuclear weapon states. Nearly every country in the world is a member of the treaty, even if they do not possess nuclear weapons, by law they state that they are a nonnuclear

The quintessential opinion of the atomic bomb in the 1950s was summarized in this short story from Reader’s Digest: “My son and his family, who live in California not too far from the atomic-bomb testing grounds in Nevada, are becoming used to seeing a flash and some minutes later feeling the house rock. One night recently he woke from a sound sleep and asked, ‘What’s that?’ ‘Oh go back to sleep,’ said his wife. ‘It’s only an atomic bomb.’ My son settled back. ‘All right. I was afraid one of the kids had fallen out of bed’” (Miller and Nowak 43). The atomic bomb, one of the destructive forces that ended World War II, was considered a force that did not need to be reckoned with. It was common place and even more, it was a comfort.

Starting in the 1949 with the explosion of an atomic bomb(RDS-1) in Russia and ending with the dissolvement of the Soviet Union, the nuclear arms race was an extremely tense few decades that forever changed the United States in many ways. The Arms Race is exactly what it sounds like; a race to amass more advance weapons. During these four decades, the Nuclear Arms Race affected Americans socially through instilling a variety of emotions ranging from fear, to awe of the power of the nuclear weapons, economically through enlarging governmental role within the economy and mostly importantly, the political impacts were more involvement required by the U.S government in world affairs and as a force against Russia.

A major short term factor that lead to the Cold War was USSR’s fear of America’s newly acquired atomic weapons. During WWII two atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese cities. The immense power and destruction caused by these new weapons resulted in the founding of United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. The goal of this commission was to contain atomic weapons and regulate their use. The US proposed the Baruch Plan, and the USSR proposed universal nuclear disarmament. Both of their proposals were refused and in the beginning of the Cold War, the United States had exclusive ownership of nuclear weapons. However, the USSR had begun working on acquiring and building their own stockpile of nuclear weapons. Although this process began slowly, after the USSR got a hold of their own uranium sources, they shocked the world and successfully developed and detonated their first nuclear bomb by 1949. This began the sort of Nuclear Arms race which ultimately increased hostilities between the two nations.

Every country has their own culture and it is expressed through their own traditional factors such as language and education. When a culture attempts to dominate a different culture, individuals of minor culture could easily be isolated. In Brian Friel’s Translation, he shows a several issues that could be simultaneously occurred by colonialism.

President Truman, decision over booming Japan is a significant period of time that molds the United States. The crucial decision that was made on August of 1945, brought World War II to an end. While bringing the WWII to an end, it attracted a lot of debates over the use of the atomic bombs in the war. Even though the WWII has ended decades ago debates still lingers to this point. Having people in both sides of the debates, makes people wonder if the use of the first atomic bomb in the world was used properly or not.

On Monday July 16th, 1945, a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos, New Mexico. This atomic bomb testing would forever change the meaning of war. As the atomic bomb was detonated it sent shock-waves all over the world. There was endless research done on the bomb in the United States. The research was called The Manhattan Engineer District Project but it was more commonly known as "The Manhattan Project."

In the 1950’s tension was rising in the cold war, having successfully tested a nuclear bomb the U.S decided to enter the “New look” which caused America to depend on Atomic weapons more, and the U.S. was willing to supply allies with atomic weapons. Records show that in February of 1958 the U.S said that it would prefer that japan use an appropriate amount of atomic weapons for self-defense purposes under the arrangement similar to the NATO’S ”nuclear sharing” deal. This discovery was found by Akira Kurosaki who is an associate professor at Fukushima University. He uncovered this document at the U.S. National Archives in Maryland which was never reviled to the public. Japan wanted to know exactly how the atomic weapons would be used but the

During the cold war, both nations built up massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons to achieve nuclear supremacy over the other. Both the soviets and the US hoped to use nuclear weapons as leverage against each other by assuring Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.

The development of nuclear weapons helped to end World War II, but in turn created their own war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The development of modified military missiles such as the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM, by Americans and the Soviets, had an impact on the struggle of power of the Cold War. The importance of military involvement in the creation of modified missiles and engines were critical events of the Cold War. Additionally, the steps taken to get to space were a byproduct of this Arms Race and the Cold War. Because the United States and the Soviet Union feared what the other country would or could do with weapons of mass destruction and the thought of the opposing country being able to control

Edgar Allan Poe is a product of the 18th and 19th century Romantics era. Romantics used poetry as an expression of their imagination and emphasized intense emotion in their writings. During this time, Poe was most- known for his dark, mysterious, and strange writings. His unusual writings were disapproved of because it was not the traditional romantics writing style. This connected Poe’s work with the dark romanticism aspect. Edgar Allan’s Poe, dark style of writing was influenced by his life, which is obvious when reading his poem “The Raven”, and although his work was considered strange it continues to influence so many others today.

President Kennedy came to office with warnings of a missile gap. The Soviets had achieved or were achieving a significant advantage in strategic nuclear weapons. Though tensions ran even higher, "Eisenhower’s strategy of massive retaliation made little sense and did not account for the rapidly growing Soviet nuclear arsenal4. Kennedy's nuclear strategy became known as flexible response. The idea was to acquire the military forces that could deal flexibility with varying levels of Soviet Aggression3. The most serious confrontation between Russia and the US was the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Link to Stephanie's page) Soviet leader Khrushchev attempted to place intermediate range missiles in Cuba. Kennedy responded by imposing a quarantine on Cuba. This resulted in the removal of the Soviet missiles and led to Kennedy making the decision to dismantle U.S. missiles based in Turkey. Some analysts argue that the successful outcome was due to the United States’ nuclear superiority, which proved that strategic superiority offered important political advantages5.

Jimmy Carter once said, “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.” The book takes place in fictional Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Scout, the narrator, and her older brother Jem, have a different childhood than most children at that time period, because their father, Atticus, is not making them conform to society’s standards and is encouraging them to be who they want to be. The family has an African-American cook, Calpurnia, who both children adore, and Atticus teaches them to respect everyone and not discriminate based on race. Throughout the novel, there are several instances of discrimination against both white and black people, like when Calpurnia brought Jem and Scout to her church one time, and how Atticus defended Tom Robinson in court for a crime he did not commit knowing he was going to lose because Tom is black. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses both dialogue and setting to convey the fact that discrimination is an issue that affects everyone.