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Nuclear Weapon Site Nuclear Weapon Site Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: Welcome to ChimaShadw's Nuclear Weapons Site This webpage was created in response to an assignment of Mr. Gen, and English 9 teacher at E.S.H.S. Feel free to use this information to help you with your studies =) Nuclear Weapons (the non-use of in the future) My Other Pages: Nuclear Energy: Ionization Land of the Shady Planet Radiation Sickness The Star-Crossed Lovers Page Hiroshima: History Utopia.. The Cold War God's Page.. The Damage Gallery email me at [email protected] http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/index.html [1/3/2000 10:28:45 PM] Nuclear Weapons Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: Nuclear Weapons In 1939, during World War Two, America began the Manhattan Project, developing an atomic bomb. This weapon was tested, and then used in warfare on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan. This city sustained massive damage from the nuclear energy in the explosion. Many people died of the initial effects, but many more died of radiation sickness. For about 70 years, Hiroshima was radioactive and pretty much uninhabitable. Nuclear weapons are inhumane; they should not be used in warfare, or at any other time. The damage they cause is irreversible, and the pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons is inexcusable. When a nuclear weapon is dropped, everything is destroyed, and the radiation left over makes the place uninhabitable, though plants grow bigger and faster from the radiation left over. Nuclear power should not be used to make weapons, though nuclear energy should be used for medical reasons, and any environmentally safe uses that are for the betterment of humanity and don't cause death -- to plants and/or animals. Nuclear weapons are too powerful and destructive to be used in warfare, the threat of nuclear warfare is very intense and frightening, just take a look at the Cold War. Nuclear weaponry is very bad, because of the suffering caused, it is best to be at ground zero or far enough away from the explosion to be unaffected by it. This is not right; one should not have to go through radiation sickness just because one was not close enough to be disintegrated. The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went through terrible lives, with pain and suffering, their skin came of, for God's sakes! This is not acceptable behavior in this day and age! War should not be warped to kill civilians, war has been, and always will be for the people who want to fight war, such as politicians and very dedicated people (which includes religious observers and patriots) that want only for their side to win. Civilians should not have been brought into the war, nor should they ever be! Nuclear weapons do just this: they bring civilians into war with their death and suffering. Nuclear weapons should never be used again, think of it: if a nuclear bomb is used in the future, the children of today may have to die in pain and suffering. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DIE WITH PAIN AND SUFFERING!!!!! Radiation therapy is used to prevent this outcome for cancer patients, but nuclear weapons are used to make this happen, anyone that doesn't veto the use of a nuclear weapon is participating in an inhuman slaughter. Mass murdering of humans (or slaughters) is not an accepted form of punishment, and has not been since the Civil War, maybe even World War II, even though they should not have been accepted. During the Civil War time, the Native Americans were slaughtered, and during World War II, the Nazis systematically killed Jewish followers, twins, homosexuals and many other peoples that are rather http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/nuclear.html (1 of 2) [1/3/2000 10:28:55 PM] Nuclear Weapons unknown to children in American schools, from lack of *great* importance, like death has no great importance. Most people think that only Jewish people were killed, this is not true. During World War II, the United States slaughtered thousands of people when they dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Again, this form of punishment is inexcusable. If one is going to punish someone else, one must take in all the factors, the people who died in Hiroshima should not have been punished, they had nothing to do with the war, only military personnel, if anyone at all, and government officials who play a part in whatever war is taking place should be punished, it is NOT fair to punish someone who has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION, WHICHEVER THIS SITUATION MAY BE! Nuclear warfare does not take this into consideration, 'tis just about who has the bigger bomb and what will be destroyed. Governments do not take civilian suffering into consideration, just what will be affected. This is how it is in most wars, but it used to be with smaller bombs. This is why nuclear bombs are bad and should never again be used. Nuclear energy, used for the betterment of humanity is good, though, because it may save life and prevent suffering, such as with cancer patients. It is said that pot (marijuana) can be used to prevent pain in cancer patients resulting from radiation therapy, and this helps to prove that many bad things can be used for good purposes when used differently. Nuclear weapons have no other uses but to destroy, and should never again be used. Though, maybe Earth should keep its supply of nuclear weapons, just in case of an alien invasion, such as in the movie Independence Day and Mars Attacks, where humans would need nuclear weapons to battle the onslaught of deadly creatures from the far reaches of space. email me at [email protected] http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/nuclear.html (2 of 2) [1/3/2000 10:28:55 PM] The Damage Gallery Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: The Damage Gallery Burn Pictures ~These are pictures of burn victims from the atom bombs of Japan *Photo Credits (Left to Right): U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Defense Thermonuclear Ground Burst ~*Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Fireball From an Air Burst in the Megaton Energy Range ~*Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force House Before Nuclear Weapons Test ~Unreinforced brick house with 5-psi overpressure *Photo Credit: Nuclear Defense Agency House After Nuclear Weapons Test ~Unreinforced brick house with 5-psi overpressure *Photo Credit: Nuclear Defense Agency Hiroshima: the Effects of the Atom Bomb ~*Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force Detroit: 1-Mt Nuclear Weapon Damage Detroit: 25-Mt Nuclear Weapon Damage email me at [email protected] http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/gallery.html [1/3/2000 10:29:04 PM] burn pics Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: Burn injuries from the blast The burns of this victim correspond with the dark portions of the kimono worn at the time of the explosion http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/pic10.html [1/3/2000 10:29:09 PM] thermonuclear ground burst Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/pic11.html [1/3/2000 10:29:30 PM] air burst fire ball: megaton energy range Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/pic12.html [1/3/2000 10:29:47 PM] Nuclear Energy Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: Nuclear Energy: Ionization Nuclear physics is the study of nuclear energy. There are two ways of creating nuclear energy: fission and fusion. Nuclear weapons work with the power of fission. When a neutron hits a Uranium molecule of U-235, it changes the structure, creating an imbalance, which divides the cell into two lighter cells and some leftover, high-energy, neutrons. This split releases approximately 200MeW. The leftover neutrons then hit other U-235 cells, and so on and so forth. This chain reaction creates a large amount of energy. The energy of one pound of Uranium exploding at 1/10,000 of a second is equal to that of 15,000 tons of exploding TNT. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan was the height of the average adult male of the 1940s, and vaporized a radius of four miles. And within a radius of about 20 miles from the hypocenter of the explosion, there was sever damage, which was much the work of fire. The radiation left over from the explosion of an atom bomb causes radiation sickness, and an exaggerated growth rate in plants. email me at [email protected] http://www.angelfire.com/sk/ranehawk/energy.html [1/3/2000 10:29:58 PM] Radiaton Sickness Play games in Angelfire Arcade Lycos Music: Tunes, news, and more! Free Homepages | Free E-Mail Shop | Chat | MP3 Search the Web: Radiation Sickness Radiation is divided into two types: ionizing and nonionizing. Nonionizing types include light, radio waves, micro waves and radar.
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