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If nuclear weapons are used in war sustainable life on this planet will be ended. Nuclear Weapons have only been used a few times in the history of this earth. The few times nuclear weapons were used the amount of damaged they caused was devastating. The first country to use nuclear weapons was the United States during World War II. On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima killing between 90,000 and 166,000. Then on August 6th, 1945 the second atomic bomb nicknamed “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki killing 60,000 – 80,000 people. These statistics show how devastating nuclear weapons were when they were used and how they can be if they are used again. This paper will examine the Dangerous effects of

In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped over Japan on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and a detrimental impact on the environment.

material used by atomic weapons (EPA, 2013). In 1989, production halted and cleanup of the site’s

The atomic bomb left a devastating aftermath in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of world war two. Both bombs killed thousands of innocent Japanese citizens, left radiation on the land and in the few survivors. According to the report of the general advisory committee the hydrogen bomb is more extreme: “a weapon whose energy release is 100 to 1000 times greater and whose destructive power in terms of area is 20 to 100 times greater than those of the present atomic bomb” (pp. 5), a weapon at this

With the start of World War II the race for the first atomic bomb started. With Germany under Hitler’s reign, the Nazis began separating uranium to form the first atomic bomb to control the world. The push for the United States build the first atomic bomb began with this knowledge. With the help of several scientists the United States succeeded in building the atomic bomb first. Two atomic bombs were used; a uranium bomb on Hiroshima and a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. Along with the many deaths were six stages of A-bomb illness which includes acute stages, atomic bomb trauma, A-bomb radiation illness, radiation blood injury at lethal dosage, blood injuries, and secondary radiation illness. Seven unhealed scars were also an effect of the atomic bombs that includes keloids, A-bomb cataracts, leukemia, cancers, chromosome changes, exposure in utero and microcephaly, and genetic surveys. Regulations and guidance were set in place soon after the bombings to protect the people of the world based on the information that was gathered and it has changed over the years based on the new information that was learned. With the use of the atomic bombs in World War II, a lot of pain and suffering was caused, but a great deal of information was learned to help protect future generations from radiation.

The United States tested nuclear bombs, “215 A- and H-bombs” (www.nukewatch.com) above ground between 1951 and 1963 in the Nevada Test Site. Fifty years later, the U.S government studies stated that over 80,000 people who lived or were born in the U.S suffered from cancer caused by radioactive fall-out from nuclear testing. Over 15,000 of them died. Many of whom were from the states close to the testing sites, called the “downwinders,” Utah, Idaho and other states. From the Nevada Test Site the winds carried nuclear radiation fallout, filled with “iodine-131” which caused “75,000 thyroid cancers, ten percent of which are estimated to have been fatal, and strontium-90 and cesium-137, which are dangerous for between 280 and 300 years,” (nukewatch) likely causes of bone and skin cancer and leukemia. Therefore, there is some strong evidence that nuclear fall-out in the 1950s did cause cancer.

Nuclear weapons have been used twice in war – on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. More than 210,000 civilians died, while many more suffered small injuries. Even if a nuclear weapon were never again exploded over a city, there are horrible effects from the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons that are experienced as a personal and community catastrophe by lots of people around the world. This must inform and motivate efforts to get rid of these weapons.

The bombings killed more than 200,000 Japanese civilians [https://qz.com/472146/its-clear-the-us-should-not-have- bombed-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/ ]. There were still many more after the bomb was dropped. Many adults pass the radiation poisoning down to their kids. Most of these kids got leukemia and died.

The 1940’s was a decade of war, countries sought new ways to bring the most destruction to enemies with as little resources as possible. Soon enough, by the second half of the decade, weapons with nuclear power were in demand, and the United States was no different. As early as 1946, the United States began a series of nuclear bomb tests in an area just to the northeastern edge of Australia in the Pacific Ocean called the Marshall Islands. Unfortunately, the United States didn’t account for the radioactive fallout that would could affect the islands, more specifically, Bikini Atoll, and the inhabitants of those islands. As a result of the fallout affecting Bikini Atoll and other surrounding islands, these nuclear bomb testing grounds have become significant to the field of radiology by providing an example of how radiation affects land and

Whenever you think of bombs used in warfare, you always will think of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was created by scientists participating in the Manhattan Project, something so secret that President Truman was not aware of it until he took office after President Roosevelt’s unfortunate death. In addition, the bomb itself was made of uranium and weighed over 4-5 tons. Creating devastation and disorder, the atomic bomb killed over 200,000 people and many of them instantly. The rest died slowly to radiation exposure. Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb killed 90% of the population immediately. Accordingly, these bombs were monsters.

The bomb will bring tremendous ecological changes that may affect not only Japan but other parts of the world. The exact damages are to known but it is certain that they will not be positive.

Without the bomb, we would have kept on fighting until all Japanese were destroyed, killing more people than with the bomb. About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. A couple days later, about 80,000 people died after the U.S bombed Nagasaki. The U.S decision to develop and use the atomic bomb during WWII was to end the war, reduce the amount of American and Japanese casualties, and to destroy Japan’s war production sites, eventually ending the war.

The history of these atomic bombs is quite fascinating but devastating. For example, “little boy” was a manhattan project that worked on uranium extraction.

The atomic bomb has spread fear, terror, and uncertainty of the future around the world. Immediately after the first bomb went off, the Japanese were scared and confused as to what had just happened to their city. When just days later another bomb was dropped, it caused a tremendous amount of panic for them. As the word was spread throughout the world, it caused more and more talk of where else this could potentially happen. People no longer felt safe where they were but they couldn’t do anything about it. Even today the threat of another atomic bomb is lurking around all of us, and the idea of it is quite terrifying. For something as destructive as the atomic bomb you have to wonder, what if a military were to use this type of weaponry

While less polluted than its American counterpart, the British Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site in Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK, nevertheless is contaminated with varying amounts of byproducts from nuclear weapons production and maintenance, including radionuclides, heavy metals and organic chemicals. Historical waste disposal methods have proven, over time, to be less permanent and effective than was originally believed, which has led to a number of issues stemming from poor containment of the wastes at disposal sites. Remediation of these wastes is typically performed by