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…Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the world ever came to full-scale nuclear war. When the Soviet Union placed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy interpreted the act as one…

…seldom see are the achievements of the UN such as “Maintaining peace and security… promoting democracy…prevention nuclear proliferation… Eradication smallpox…reducing child mortality rates….clearing landmines…Empowering the voiceless.” All these issues…

…in nuclear power plants and other industrial facilities. After the water has absorbed the excess heat of nuclear rods or other machinery it is returned to the environment (usually a river or lake) at 9 to 20 degrees warmer a temperature. More stringent regulations…

…and sex, insuring that interpersonal relationships, would remain constant, and that the relationships would be definite and understood by all. The rise of industrialization is generally expected to give birth to a nuclear family structure “the most basic…

…continue until the interior temperature of the star reaches about 1,000,000c (about 1,800,000f). At this point a nuclear reaction takes place in which the nuclei of hydrogen atoms combined with heavy hydrogen deuterons form the nucleus of the inert gas called…

…turns a generator to make electricity. California's hydroelectric power plants are found along dams on rivers, and in the mountains. Nuclear fission means splitting an atom apart. Splitting an atom releases heat and light energy. In a nuclear power…

…type of invasion by the United States and to stabilize the “balance of power.” Something that both the US and the Soviet Union shared was their fright of world war and even nuclear war. This is arguably the only time in history where the threat of nuclear…

…explodes, vaporizing much of the white dwarf and producing an immense amount of light. Only bits of the white dwarf remain after this type of supernova occurs. The other type of supernova occurs when a supergiant star uses up all its nuclear fuel in nuclear…

…Pollution is a hazard that comes in many different forms. There is nuclear pollution, pollution from radioactive materials and many more. The type of pollution I am going to write about is radioactive waste. I am going to explain the processing…

…to enlarge. It is often associated with a dry cough. Uranium (Nuclear Industry): Nuclear power plants use uranium or other radioactive materials in order to create a fission reaction. A fission reaction basically consists of the splitting of a heavy nucleus…