Nuclear weapon Summary

H-Bomb, Decision to Build The 1950 decision to build a hydrogen bomb involved the consideration of U.S. strategic, scientific, and moral concerns in light of the growing threat from the Soviet Union. ... Read more

Nuclear Weaponry Overview Humans have warred against one another since the being of time. Until recently, this tendency to wage war endangered hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people, but neve... Read more

The Bomb For many observers, "Living with the Bomb" has become the evocative phrase to describe life in twentieth-century America. The cultural fallout from this technological innovation... Read more

Hydrogen Bomb Even as work on the first atomic bomb was going ahead, some scientists were thinking about an even more powerful weapon, the hydrogen, or fusion bomb. As far back as the 1920s, scientist... Read more

Nuclear Weapons The first nuclear explosion on earth occured on July 16, 1945, in Alamagordo, New Mexico, as part of a test for the Manhattan project initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ... Read more

Atomic Bomb The mushroom-shaped cloud associated with the above-ground detonation of an atomic bomb is one of the most defining images and represents one of the most challenging moral imperatives to a... Read more

It was in no way necessary for the United States to use the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of WWII. There were much better options available. The Russians were willing to help fight Japan, and the ... Read more

Does the United States Need Nuclear Weapons? The United States alone has enough missiles to destroy the Earth a few times over. So why do we keep funding the manufacturing of nuclear weapons, when we... Read more

Many people will argue that the United States was justified in the dropping of the atom bomb. These people believe the dropping of the atomic bomb was necessary for Japan's surrender and the end of Wo... Read more