The Physics Of The Solar Flare

As discussed earlier, approximately 17 percent of Americans witnessed the explosion of the space shuttle on live broadcast and the rest soon learned about the tragic event through newspaper, radio or television. The whole country was in shock, grief and fear. That’s why Reagan chose to address to all of American people at the beginning of this speech “we share this pain with all of the people of our country” and “this is truly a national loss.”

While seated in the Oval Office of the White house, January 28, 1986 President Ronald Reagan delivers his speech The Challenger Disaster; hours after the space shuttle The Challenger explodes while in take off. Thousands witnessed this horrifying event live in person and on television. This mission was very unique allowing the first civilian to ever be allowed in space during a mission. She was aboard The Challenger as an observer in the NASA Teacher in Space Program. Ironically, nineteen years before this disaster, three astronauts were tragically lost in an accident on the ground. President Reagan remembers those astronauts that were lost not only the day of the disaster, but also those who were lost nineteen years before. He conducts

The severity of these two weeks was like nothing the world has ever seen, especially for the people of the USSR, Cuba and the USA. Many concerns came from governments of the Northern hemisphere such as Dwight Eisenhower stating that the likelihood of nuclear warfare is 50% and rising as the confrontation continues. The weapons The Soviet Union has acquired is more than enough to destroy the Northern hemisphere. During the crisis, President Kennedy declared the highest nuclear alert, DEFCON 2. This was the first time in history that this has been alerted, following this was the gulf war in 1991. Cleary the dangers that came with the Cuban missile crisis have been beyond the point of

Solar Storms, by Linda Hogan, is about a 17-year-old Native American girl named Angel who returns to her reservation after growing up in foster care. When she gets to Adam’s Rib, she wants to know about her past and searches for her grandmother. When she gets into town she realizes that the Native culture is more vibrant than she had imagined and realizes that she is home. Her grandmother tells her about what has happened to her and about her schizophrenic mother. Then she discovers that there is a plan to build a dam that will destroy burial sites. She joins with her community to fight the project, while reconnecting and coming to terms with her mentally ill mother and her identity as a Native American. The environmental justice movement can take many things away from this novel including the complexities of these movements and how to get people from all different walks of life involved.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was an intense standoff between John F. Kennedy, President of the United States and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. For thirteen extremely unnerving days the President and the people of the United States were hoping peace would come upon the U.S. and the Soviet Union. For the reason that these two countries were on the verge of a nuclear war. The confrontation began when President John F. Kennedy was informed by an American U-2 spy plane that nuclear sites were being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. He then met with his advisors in secret meetings in order to discuss the problem and what strategies were going to be used in order to take care of the missiles in Cuba. “On October 22, he

The light was greater than that of the moon at its full, but had an indescribable softness and delicacy that seemed to envelop everything upon which it rested. Between 12 and 1 o'clock, when the display was at its full brilliancy, the quiet streets of the city resting under this strange light, presented a beautiful as well as singular appearance - Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser

The Cuban missile crisis had many side stories or potential events that could have happened. The entire crisis was a lot of “what if” situations. This chapter describes one of those subplots that could have lead to bigger issues. This occurred on “Black Saturday” which was the height of The Cuban missile crisis that could have escalated into a total nuclear

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the pinnacle of the Cold War. This crisis was going to start the worst war this world has ever seen. A all out nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union of Russia. The topics we will be talking about in this passage are the discovery of the missiles in Cuba. Then we'll talk about the attempt of the U.S. helping start a revolution in Cuba known as the Bay Of Pigs. Then finally we’ll talk about the agreement that the U.S. and Russia came to that ended the crisis. Therefor we will talk about the discovery, the attempt, and the conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Soviet general, Anatoly Gribkov recalled that during the Cuban Missile Crisis “Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread and we weren’t counting days or hours, but minutes”. (5) The thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis were one of the most dangerous and terrifying days in history. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a political and military standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States and is considered the closest moment the Cold War came to escalating into a fatal nuclear war. (1) During the incident, the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev and the president of the U.S., John F Kennedy had the power to destroy half of the countries in the world. (5) The crisis resulted from the huge tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet

In October of 1962, the world came close to annihilation for thirteen days. It is caused by the Soviet Union’s clandestine action of putting nuclear missiles in Cuba, which the United States perceived as an offensive and dangerous move. The two countries know that they are capable of destroying the entire world with the nuclear weapons, so they plan each step slowly and carefully. If there is any mistakes in the process, the price is destruction of every human civilization. Policies like brinksmanship, nuclear arms race, and spies made the Cuban Missile Crisis unavoidable. After the Crisis is finally resolved, the United States and the Soviet Union each wrote about their experiences. The account of Sergei Khrushchev from the Soviet Union

You know, I mean, the Russians had Sputnik up. They just about had antiballistic missiles in Cuba. That was close. And I was one of those around here who picked my mom up in the car. We headed north. We just got out of Dodge. I thought for sure that they were going to, you know, [that] Khrushchev wasn’t going to blink. Lucky for all of us, he did. And, luckily we had Kennedy there, because I’m not sure anybody else, one of the old-timers—well, anyway, JFK did a good

Ergo 1986, we had Halley's Comet and all the documentaries and news articles said, "we were not ready for a Near Earth Asteroid or Near Earth Comet." Even though Halley's Comet didn’t come anywhere as close to the earth, in contrast to Skylab, hit the Earth, many people, including myself, started to fear comets and asteroids with Near Earth Orbits, even more than we did Skylab. Therefore, accompanied with a pension to watch sci-fi movies and documentaries that concentrated on near earth objects, my fascination with asteroids returned. Soon I would gain an appetite for Extra-Terrestrial knowledge and conspiracy theories. Failing my way through high school, I enrolled in the U.S. Navy. The Navy, allowed me to travel and see things I would never

Cosmic-rays are high energy charged particles, come from all directions in space. In 1912, using a radiation counter (a gold leaf electroscope) on a balloon flight Victor Hess found that the amount of radiation increased as his balloon climbed. It was the first confirmation that, the cosmic-rays are coming from the outside of Earth 's atmosphere (see Simpson, 1983). The majority of the cosmic-ray particles has a positive electric charge, and possesses a large range of energies from a few million electron volts (eV) to more than 1020 eV. The rate at which cosmic-rays bombard the Earth varies enormously with their energy. Low energy cosmic-rays are plentiful (many thousand per square meter every second). The highest energy cosmic-rays are very rare (less than one hits a square kilometer of the Earth 's surface each century) (see http://ast.leeds.ac.uk/haverah/cosrays. shtml).

The Cuban missile crisis was a world-threatening event, that was successfully evaded by the two superpowers America and Russia. Most will agree that it was a combination of the actions that the two countries took that barely avoided the world from ending. However, depending on your viewpoint, the actions that each side took and the effects they had can be different. Two sources which have explained the crisis are 13 Days and How My Father and President Kennedy Saved the World. The two sources come from two separate viewpoints, one from that of Robert Kennedy, the brother of the President at the time and the acting Attorney General at the time as well. The other is the viewpoint that of Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Nikita Khrushchev, the acting leader of the Soviet Union at the time. Both sources layout the events of the missile crisis in great detail, focusing on what had occurred on their side of the story, whether American or Russian. However the two sources have some very apparent contradictions, that lead to separate conclusions on what happened during the Cuban missile crisis.

I was in a dimly lit room, the transmissions over the radio bounced off the equipment trying to combat the sound of the storm. This would be the last shift I would have as a radio engineer in the Soviet navy. From the corner of my eye I saw Boris making his way to my station. “Kourdakov, go grab a drink, I’ll take over for a bit!” He had no idea that I was not coming back. I had planned for months to escape, but the fear of getting caught made me hesitate. We were just a couple of miles off the shores of British Columbia, riding out the storm. I always wanted to live in the free world, this would be my only chance to leave my old life behind and start another one. I had made a flotation device out of an old tire in preparation for my