It was a night like no other. On June 7th, 2017 there had been multiple reports of suspicious activity in a building just on the outside of Los Angeles, California. People had said they had seen hooded and masked figures moving a large object from a van into a house. There had been an officer that reported to the scene and he said that we needed to get the S.W.A.T team assembled right away. We were in the middle of a very serious situation. The terrorists had planted another bomb and this one would take out the whole city of Los Angeles.If we didn't stop the bombs from exploding, then eighteen and a half million people would never get to see the sunset again. First, my team of four and I split up into two groups of two and a single group …show more content…
We radioed over to our commander that the kid had been By the end of the sweep, we had cleared out at least 30 terrorists with only one . Finally we decide to plant the bomb defuser. There must have been some more terrorists nearby in another building because almost right after we set the defuser down, we heard a crash as they broke through the front door. We have a clear shot at the stair case, but right as we saw the top of the first person, we see a small, round object fly from downstairs and right into the middle of the room. "Grenade!" I yell and we all jump behind any object large enough to hide behind. "Boom!" I pop out of cover and all I can see is the new hole in the floor and a lot of smoke from the grenade. Out of the smoke come at least ten shadowy figures. Then flashes and bullets whizzing by my head. My first instinct is to return fire but that is a bad mistake. I take a bullet in my left bicep. I scream and collapse. This isn't the first time I have been shot but you can never get used to that. I decide that there is no time to waste and that I needed to fight through the pain. It hurt to even move my arm but I deal with it. I pop back out of cover and I see that there are only two terrorists left in the room and they are to occupied by my other teammates so I pick them off easily. Just as the silence settles in I hear a ding. The defuser is finally done and the mission is done finally. We head back outside for debrief and to go get
Have you ever been really nervous because if you don't win a race to build the world most dangerous weapon you are in a critical condition of dying? The best part of the book is when Japan refuses to surrender. The only option is to drop atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It was intelligently planned to drop bombs there because it would, of course, scare many. Not only that but Nagasaki and Hiroshima were really unarmed for something like the world's most dangerous weapon in the world (the atomic bomb). In the book The Bomb by, Steve Sheinkin writes about how most countries in the world is in a race to build the first atomic bomb. The U.S. successfully makes the bomb and ends the war. The author Steve Sheinkin fully describes how the conflict
Prior to the 1993 bombing, the threat of international terrorism had never really hit home for most Americans, “It couldn’t happen here”. But it did. A group of Middle Eastern terrorists placed explosives in the back of a rented van and parked it in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center. The result was a large crater, over a thousand
The genre of “Bombs Bursting in Air” by Beth Johnson is a narration. It tells a story starting with a woman reminiscing over the experiences that she has endured throughout her life. Johnson’s purpose behind this writing was to encourage the reader to stay strong against any troubles that they are faced with in life. Johnson’s writing is appealing to the audience of people that have had struggles but overcome them and keep going in life. In the introduction of this story, Johnson uses the phrase, “bombs bursting in air” (Johnson 206) to start her extended metaphor. She continues to use the term “bombs” metaphorically throughout the story for the events that cause an impact in life. Both events in her life and in others around her. Johnson in
The origins of the Manhattan Project go back to 1939, when Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard, who had moved to the U.S. in 1938 to conduct research at Columbia University, became convinced of the feasibility of using nuclear chain reactions to create new, powerful bombs. German scientists had just conducted a successful nuclear fission experiment, and based on those results, Szilard was able to demonstrate that uranium was capable of producing a nuclear chain reaction. Szilard noted that Germany
There were many alternatives to using the A-bomb, such as improving conventional bombing and the Naval Blockade, allowing the Japanese to retain their emperor, or even waiting for the soviets to interject. These would all be time consuming and tedious. Time consuming and tedious are not how Truman needed to end the war. The fastest and most effective way to end the war was through nuclear bombs, regardless of lives lost or pain
A married couple by the name of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashleen Malik opened fire at a holiday party on December 2, 2015, at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. During this shooting spree, 14 people were killed, and 22 were injured with a majority being county employees and were friends and colleges’. It was approximately 11 a.m. when the couple entered the Inland Regional Center and opened fire. They opened fire in the employee banquet area where Mr. Farook had been earlier as he attended a work holiday party. It was reported that Mr. Farook had left angered after getting into a disagreement with a fellow coworker. Quickly after the shooting they escaped into a black SUV leaving behind three pipe bombs that did not detonate. The televised chase ended in an intense shootout that led to a full muti-agency response, to include the use of MRAPs and it was also reported that 23 officers fired over 380 rounds (Helton, 2015). Ultimately, the shootout resulted in the death of both Rizwan Farook and Tashleen Malik.
This essay covers a fictitious sleeper cell chemical attack in the state of California. A group of 11 sleepers in California regroup for planned attack on the Presidio of Monterey (POM) and Fort Ord. They plan to blow up a truck carrying 15 tons of chlorine and use addition chlorine in pipe and pressure cooker bombs. POM is home to the Defense Language Institute (DLI), comprised of thousands of uniformed service members and civilian employees. Fort Ord is the main housing base for families with no entry control points.
Bombing of civilian centers in WWII by Germany, Britain and the US was immoral and not necessary because millions of people were killed without reason in strict violation of laws protecting civilians. Intentional bombing of civilian centers did not disrupt military functions of the enemy; it simply killed civilians. This unnecessary death it not only immoral but also illegal. According to accepted principles of war, there must be “military necessity” and a “legitimate military objective” in order for an attack to be allowed. Furthermore, the Allies admit deliberately targeting civilian centers in a pamphlet dropped by the RAF in Germany: "We are bombing Germany, city by city, and ever more terribly, in order to make it impossible for you to
On the morning of September 11, 2001, exactly at 9:22 a.m., I woke up to start my day and turned my television on. Instantly, Fox News had reported that a commercial plane had smashed into the Twin Towers of New York City, just minutes earlier. While the story was certainly shocking, I wanted to know more and watched the horrific aftermath unfold, as it continued to happen. I remember an incredible feeling of sadness that I could do nothing to help the people in these buildings, as well as a great concern that more attempts could be made to create further tragedy elsewhere.
World War II was Fought from 1939-1945. The Nazis forced ladored Jews to make bombs in the Holocaust. There were many different types of bombs and chemicals in WWII.
Imagine being surrounded by dust and fire, the sound of explosions in the distance, along with people screaming names of friends and family members. People jumping out of the windows for a glimpse of hope. "Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly acts of terrorism. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices: secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended in evil, despicable acts of terror. 9/11 was a terrible event, still affects us today, TSA, the creation of the National Security and the NSA, along with ruined lives for the families of people who have died.
That night thousands of patrol cars covered the land, the ocean waters swarmed with boats searching for the mysterious figure. At that time, the whole town of San Francisco was covered with wanted posters. Suddenly, news broadcast were lighting up the townsman's t.v.s All of this was happening just for one person or thing or whatever you want to call the figure. The only thing everyone knows was that whomever this is that whatever they did, or what they were planning on doing will be catastrophic. And it would change the
Bryce, I read your response to the exemplification essay "Bombs Bursting in Air," written by Beth Johnson. I agree with the points that you made throughout your discussion, and can see similarities between your discussion and mine. I also said that there were positive outcomes to some of the negative situations that happened in Johnson's life. While reading your response, I liked the vocabulary you used to describe the "bombs" in the author's life. Words like "horrific" and "devastating" convey the impact that the "bombs" have on the people involved. I can tell you thoroughly understood the essay with your response to the last
During 1970’s and 80’s, Qaddafi’s government financed a wide variety of Muslims, anti-U.S., and anti-British terrorist groups worldwide (http://www.history.com). “In January 1986, United States President Ronald Reagan broke all economic ties with Libya”, according to the author of the World Book 2011 (World Book 2011 Edition L, 268). 4 months later, on April 15 of 1986 the U.S. launched bombs in Libya (https://www.britannica.com). “The bombings lasted about 12 minutes” (https://www.britannica.com). During the 12 minutes of bombing 60 tons of ammunition, military weapons, etc. were dropped on Libya (https://www.britannica.com). Two hours after the attack on Libya President Reagan made a television announcement to U.S. citizens (http://news.bbc.co.uk). President Reagan said “Libya’s agents then planted the bomb, on April 4, the People’s Bureau alerted Tripoli that the attack would be carried out the following morning. The next day, they reported back to Tripoli on the great success of their mission”
The recent rise in terrorist attacks around the world and use of missiles, rockets, ballistic, nuclear weapons, Hydrogen bombs there is huge competition in power show to project in front of the world threatening, feel of insecurity and disturbing the mindset of people by announcing nuclear weapons, and trial testing a challenge for new generation, The buildings currently offer little in the way of protection from explosions. Those protection needs the desired level of protection the building must provide to its occupants or its ability to function has made protection point of view promoted fast research and development of new construction materials to necessarily enhance the resistance of buildings and infrastructures