Essays on Nuclear Age

Thesis

Many individuals argue that the nuclear weapons developed during the nuclear age are critical. They base the weapon’s importance on the fact that they can be used in deterring war between countries that are in conflict. However, critics argue that this is not the case. The Korean War is a proof that some of the assumptions of the nuclear age were wrong. 1. The View that only nuclear weapons could be used to deter war and bring justice to conflicting countries A. The Soviet leader called Joseph Sterling supported the North Korean army in 1950 for them to ...

In the wake of the second world war and with the entry into what would come to be known as the “nuclear age”, the world knew that nothing would be the same in the second half of the 20th century. Arguably, nobody felt the dawn of the nuclear age greater than Japan following the devastation and chaos caused by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. First-hand accounts of the bombings were frightening; people screaming, fleeing, desperate to find cover, while a blinding light and a sudden blazing heat suddenly filled the air, followed swiftly by an ominous roar, a steady rumble would follow, ...

The twentieth century saw number of significant developments and inventions that changed the overall outlook of the world. Out of all these inventions and explorations, atomic bomb was one that had greater impact on the world. The impact of nuclear bomb was strategic, political, economic, social and moral. The first of these events and so far the only instance when the nuclear bomb was experimented took place in the middle of Second World War over Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Langley, 88). It occurred when the atrocities and offensives of Japanese troops and fighters grew beyond the bearable threshold and ...

Proposed Topic for Research:

A documentary based on the Hibakusha. They are the survivors of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II.

It Aims to Develop the Following:

1. A documentary based on the survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II that will open up a comprehensive understanding of the moral aspects of the event. 2. An understanding of how the Manhattan Project (development of Plutonium and the atomic bomb) wiped out thousands of innocent lives. 3. A comprehensive view on the historical events that led to the bombing. What caused the US to decide to ...