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    be used much safer and more comfortably: High powered lights often used in Growing operations, like with Hydroponics and Marijuana, and Used to the extreme in the application of DEW or Directed Energy Weapons. Lasers and microwaves can be used to impact physical beings and objects through the use of Directed Energy. Working like a modern complex version of Archimedes 's Mirror

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    protective equipment is so important for the safety of soldiers, advances in weapons is what wins wars. The United States military is constantly designing new weapons for soldiers because with each new threat, a new counter is needed. As for weapons used to take the enemy out, there are infinite possibilities of weapons that could be designed for that area weaponry. The Unites States military is trying to design weapons that no other country has so that the enemy won't know what hit them and would

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    Space Weapons Essay

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    Should the U.S. place limits on the development of space weapons? What should go in the category of space weapon? What challenges will be faced in the development of space weapons? How will these developments tie into furthering technology for space travel? How will these advances affect life here on earth? Currently the United States does not have weapons of mass destruction in space. The United States does have tactical devices in space providing defense and supporting campaigns that take place

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    a laser has been involved. Every single video game I play where there is a big sci-fi influence on it, there's a laser. I just bought are reviewed No Man's Sky. Most of the weapons and mining tools are energy based laser weapons. But that is just science fiction -- for now. Researchers are developing directed energy weapons with almost limitless amounts of ammo to use in warfare and defense. Why is this such a big deal when it comes to defense? Especially missile defense? Back in the '80s, President

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    as stated in the book, utilitarianism is consequentialist moral theory which focused on consequences that promote the good for the greatest number of people (Harper 23). By analyzing a case study about nuclear weapon, there is not many good consequences for majority of people. Nuclear weapon project does provide some new jobs for unemployed or currently employed, but that benefit is for those who need a job. Other than that, no effect on them. Also, as a war deterrent, the effect will be influential

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    altered the military landscape. Due to the changing landscape, questions have arisen regarding the legality and ethics of the use of such technologies. Advanced military technologies such as directed energy weapons, autonomous vehicles and robots, and cyber weapons seem to seem to fall into categories of weapons not yet created or restricted, challenging the long established international humanitarian laws. (Allenby) Technology changes more rapidly than we might expect. In the 65 years since the Geneva

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    be used in the war with the making of bombs, was written on August 2nd, 1939. Einstein tells the President of the experiments of people who most likely work with him, on the work of uranium, a very radioactive material. He says they can be used for energy in the immediate future, and the audience knows this because Albert Einstein says,”... that the element

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    Creation Of Atomic Bombs

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    combination of many different theories. In 1905, Albert Einstein, a German physicist, discovered that large amounts of energy could be released from small amounts of matter. He concluded this discovery with the equation of E=mc2, which states that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Due to this discovery, atomic bombs were identified as getting their explosive energy from fission reactions. Fission was discovered on December 17, 1938, by German scientist Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman

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    Nuclear weapons are weapons that get their destructive power by turning matter into energy (Kroenig, Matthew). All nuclear weapons are explosive and can be transported in missiles, bombs, artillery shells, mines, or torpedoes. If a nuclear weapon went off in a in a large city, it would kill millions of people and destroy the environment and climate. We have only experienced what nuclear weapons are capable of and the damage they can cause in war twice. The only two nuclear weapons ever used in

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    gear. Germany had the lead; in fact, they had one of the greatest chemical engineering industries in the world. The threat of nuclear war was at hand, and the Axis powers had the lead. On May 12, 1942, an order was created to develop a nuclear weapon. As a matter of fact, this was known as the largest secret project the United States government has ever undertaken. Thus, the Manhattan Project was born. This project was introduced into over 30 different locations, including Hanford, Washington

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