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…The Consequences of the Atomic Bomb: Long Term and Short Term One of the most powerful yet dangerous assets man has is the ability to harness the power of the atom. Like a caged tiger, nuclear power can be a blessing or a curse. Unfortunately, man…

…important he was in the Third Reich and that he was now the chief of the German bomb program? Or were the moral implications of the realization of a nuclear weapon far too great for him to proceed without the "absolution" from his former professor? Did Heisenberg…

…Pearl Harbor, the United States in late 1941 established a secret program, which cam to be known as the Manhattan Project, to develop an atomic bomb, a powerful explosive nuclear weapon. The aim of the project was to build an atom bomb before Germany did…

…on general and complete disarmament under strict international control in accordance with the objectives of the United Nations; to put an end to the armaments race and eliminate incentives for the production and testing of all kinds of weapons, including nuclear…

…at first. But others felt the implications were immediately clear. Niels Bohr brought news of Meitner's discovery to the United States in 1939. Several scientists, realizing that fission could be used to build a devastating weapon, wrote to President Roosevelt…

…. The first sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved in December 1942 at the University of Chicago under the direction of Arthur Holly Compton. Key members of the research team were Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Shortly after the first bomb…

…of Truman’s presidency, beyond all doubt, was the use of nuclear weapons upon Japan during the days of following the Potsdam Conference.7 It is plausible to think that Japan would have surrendered if the U.S. had waited, but we will never know. The president’s…

…There is a debate over whether the United States needs a National Missile Defense. The National Missile Defense system if built is a system of interceptor missiles. The system would help prevent a nuclear missile attack on the United States…

…” war. Almost every country in the world now has nuclear weapons that put the atomic bomb to shame. Another world war really could be the war to end all wars because there are enough nuclear weapons to annihilate the earth and all its inhabitants. War…

…they too had the nuclear capability to launch a weapon with the same devastating power. Much of this technology was retained through the use of western spies located with the government. America began a widespread hate to all Communists. Those who were…