A Report On Mayak Disaster

Of course the creation of the nuclear bomb was a watershed event of World War II in which more that 60 million people died. The United States thought that with the creation of the bomb and having such a weapon, they would no longer have to get involved in wars and would have peace. But the creations of the nuclear weapon led to other results. Nuclear power stations were being created that were able to give cheap energy and allowed progress. But, nuclear power stations were also very dangerous. In 1986 in the USSR, there was an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Due to this accident, a lot of people became sick from the radiation and that radiation was very bad for the environment and everything living around that area. But even due to the dangers, people cannot let go of nuclear energy.

The beginnings of the Nuclear Age started when Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt warning him of a dangerous weapon the Nazis had begun researching, known as the atomic bomb. (1) Though, when President Roosevelt first read this letter, he was too preoccupied with events in Europe to be bothered with such ideas. He at the time did not take the creation of such weapon to seriously, nor did he believe America had the resources for such a task. (2) Finally, on October 19, 1939 President Roosevelt wrote back to Einstein stating that the United States had begun to research the power of uranium. (2) With the help of the British, whom reluctantly gave the United States leadership on this project, in June of 1942 the Manhattan Project had begun, though most of the world had no idea that this was even happening, not even Vice President Truman. (2)

When President Truman authorized the use of two nuclear weapons in 1945 against the Japanese in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, the nature of international security was changed irreversibly. At that time, the United States had what was said to have a monopoly of atomic bombs. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union began working on atomic weaponry. In 1949, it had already detonated it first atomic bomb and tensions began to heat up between the two countries. With the information that the Soviets had tested their first bomb, the United States began work on more powerful weapons1, and a fight for nuclear superiority had begun.

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

Well, the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb on August 29th, 1949. Edward Teller used fear and a strong national security policy to convince the United States Government to start a hydrogen bomb program to stay ahead of the Soviets. Eventually President Truman agreed to build a thermonuclear weapon involving nuclear fission and nuclear fusion; the program began in January of 1950. Stanislaw Ulam proved that Tellers’ design would not work, and so Teller sought more physicists to make a working design. Edward and Ulam eventually came up with a design that worked and was detonated on November 1st, 1952. Edward Teller was not present to see the test, but his long time obsession with the hydrogen bomb was now validated as he saw the results via

On Saturday, 26 April 1986 a reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant near Pripyat, Russia has a sudden power surge which caused mass damage. The Power Plant tried for immediate

In 1945 Feb 4-11,the Yalta conference occurred and the cold war began,the US began a series of event from 1945 to 1950 to help isolate russia and communism and in 1949 the russian’s first Atom bomb is successfully test and in 1950,Pres Truman athorizes the research of the Hydrogen bomb. The US finished their H-bomb first,project Mike in Nov,1952 though that and their following bravo test March,1954 were both non-military grade and were too big to be used as so. Russia completed their military simi H-bomb in Aug,1953,simi because it was a prototype layer cake bomb,a design that was later abandoned and in Nov,1955 their first true H-bomb is tested. Next several more countries including Britain,France, and china China in that order

Nazi Germany fell from power in the later 1930’s, it drew a line in the political agenda between those with remaining power and those that fought and lost the right. This left countries such as the United States and Russia having many economic and political differences with no choice but to solve their problems through civil conflict. Communist ideals were still fighting for existence and the struggle for political change within Russian boundaries was leaving distress and crisis between The West (United States) and the East (Russia). Inside the Soviet Union, “the struggle for change is producing turmoil; the forces of reaction, of reform and of disintegration are in contention, the outcome uncertain.”(carl jaysen) This was hard to construct what the outcome would be when nuclear weapons were introduced. Powerful countries would no longer have to physically send in troops to a country in times of crisis because nuclear power was more readily available. Also in World War II, “an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki.”(history.com) These events left thousands immediately dead and many others shocked across the world.“ The development of nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them accurately at intercontinental ranges opened a wide and increasing gap between what was technically

The machines and processes designed during the 1940’s had adverse consequences as well. The first nuclear reactor was built by Enrico Fermi in 1942. The Chicago Pile 1 was the “world’s first man-made controlled nuclear chain reaction”. This caused the creation of other nuclear reactors and the atomic bomb (CP-1). The atomic bomb was developed and successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico in July 16, 1945. In August 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and killing an estimated 340,000 people (Sherrow 88).

Nuclear weapons have only ever been used once in human history, and that was during World War II when The United States deployed missiles on Japanese territory, in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. At the time of bombing in 1945 only the USA had developed nuclear weapons, whilst today the pool of states consisting of nuclear weapons is still extremely small, with only nine states laying claim to nuclear technology and weaponry. This nuclear proliferation is explained by Darryl Howlett who explains this as the worldwide spread of nuclear weapons. For Howlett states are nuclear driven because of the ‘strategic, political and prestige benefits’ attached to nuclear weapons[1]. In the

The fall of the lowland Maya can be seen as a result of many factors, coming together as a one catastrophe. Many scholars believe that one thing in particular did not lead to the claps of the Mayan civilization, but rather a combination of factors. Increased population, environment degradation led to malnutrition in population, which then led to epidemic diseases.

In 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped causing the nuclear arms race to begin between the two superpowers; United States and Soviet Union. Following the Korean War both United states and Soviet nuclear “buildup” was exponentially growing. The Manhattan Project in the United States, there were four main sites but the Los Alamos site built the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Edward Teller working at the site Los Alamos and wanted to keep and maintain the laboratory's work in theoretical development in the hydrogen bomb and refinement of atomic explosions. This would lead the United States in October 1952 to successfully test a thermonuclear device called Castle Bravo( hydrogen bomb) which was more powerful than the atomic bombs

On May 1949 the soviets tested their first atomic bomb it was a success this drove fear and paranoia into citizens if the

The US opened the nuclear world race when it started the Manhattan project to acquire a nuclear bomb. The Manhattan Project was established in 1942 as a secret project to build and produce a nuclear bomb in the US. The US succeeded building the first American nuclear bomb in 1945. Unfortunately, the US used the nuclear bomb against Japan. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were attacked by nuclear bombs and

Nuclear weapons have been in this world since World War 2 and have been used, till date only twice and that too in the same war we are speaking about. The only country to use nuclear weapons was the United States of America. The US dropped two atomic nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the world witnessed the power of the man-made nuclear weapons.