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    The Japanese War Of Japan

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    The Japanese would stop at nothing to win, the Japanese soldiers fought for the sake of honoring their emperor, a foreign concept to the Americans. This “suicidal” mentality made the Japanese difficult foes because they would seldom surrender and were dangerous from a psychological standpoint. The value of honor was instilled in the Japanese at a young age and nothing was worse than being killed by the enemy and dishonoring their country and empire . This inherent Japanese nature justified why the

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    irradiated by no less than thirty nuclear detonations ranging from one to a hundred megatons. China fell soon after as the previous uk territory of hong kong was used as a missile platform for twenty new generation nuclear devices and then SAM mounted trident missiles all aimed a heavily populace areas. There was very little resistance as all the big targets were either neutralized by means of espionage or completely obliterated by insurgence planted small yield nuclear warheads. In one week the world

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    Nuclear Weapons As a Defense Mechanism

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    Nuclear weapons are the safest defense mechanism in the world. Although nuclear weapons can lead to mass destruction and the loss of thousands of lives when detonated, they are the optimal solution to the conflicts between countries in the future. The actual use of the nuclear weapon is not the deterrent, but rather just the mere fact that a country could use it against another country which avoids the large scale conflict. Thus, nuclear deterrence presents itself as a preferred security option.

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    Cold War Nuclear Weapons

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    Germany. This lead to the nuclear arms race between the U.S and Russia. In 1949, the Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb,

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    these are valid reasons but many people believe the main reason is because other countries also have nuclear weapons now. Unlike back in world war two when America was the first country to develop a successful Atomic bomb, they didn’t have to worry about getting touched by anyone else. Little did America know that since the bombings it has been a race for other countries to develop their own nuclear weapons. The atomic bomb got its start in Los Alamos New Mexico.

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    century, nuclear bombs have played an essential role in world politics and influenced the dynamics of warfare. The nuclear bomb possesses the capability of destroying an entire city in a matter of seconds. No other weapon would be capable of accomplishing that goal. Some people may say that because of the catastrophic and world-ending possibilities that the nuclear bomb would cause, future wars would be prevented. This point-of-view does not take into consideration that if a full-scale nuclear war

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    emits a radioactive “glow” is starting point out the fate of mankind. This story describes the city of Allendale, California to the audience as a glowing, radioactive wasteland with a singular home that sits alone among the ruins after massive nuclear warfare. At ten-fifteen the story moves into the backyard to describe the houses exterior, explaining that the entire side of the house is black, except for silhouettes: One of a man mowing the lawn,

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    It can be viewed in one of two ways. The first way is that the deployment of the bomb was the United State’s way to end the conflict with Japan. In a highly controversial decision, on August 3, 1945, Harry S. Truman gave the order to drop a nuclear bomb on Japan to force their surrender. It instantly vaporized seventy thousand people, and it killed 100,000 more in the years that followed from radiation poison and its various effects on the human body. The bomb was negatively viewed by many people

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    Essay On The Birthmark

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    bomb, will initiate the beginning or the ending of an era of humankind. Seeing as hundreds of thousands of lives have been affected by nuclear warfare, the development and use of nuclear weapons have become a controversial dispute in the past decades and still remain a prominent issue in our world today. Prior to their execution in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear bombs detonate for the purpose of testing and demonstration over thousands of times, causing radiation and threatening environmental damage

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    Kennedy Johnson AP Euro Mr. Chin May 26, 2016 The Nuclear Arms Race After the end of World War II, the world was left with the two global Superpowers, the U.S and the the Soviet Union. Having completely contradicting government ideologies, these two countries desperately fought each other over foreign influence, inspiring what is known as the Cold War. Named for it’s lack of military action, the Cold War was hardly a war at all but more an arms race between American democracy and Russian Communism

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