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…Important Weapons and Stratagies of World War 1 World war was was indeed unlike any other war. Unique stratagies and new technology made this war what it was, a slow moving advancement and retreat for a period of 4 years. Important tactics…
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…is the splitting of atoms, and in this process energy is released. The first large-scale nuclear reactors were built in 1944 at Hanford, Washington, for the production of nuclear weapons material. The fuel was natural uranium metal; the moderator, graphite. Plutonium…
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…The Impacts of Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in the US Nuclear energy used to be a dream energy source because it did not emit air pollutants as long as they were operating properly. The US government and Utility Companies invested billions…
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…. The bottom line though is criminals will have guns and other weapons whether the government takes them away from law - abiding citizens or not. The plain and simply fact is guns give people an effective way to arm yourself and protect yourself when the police…
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…. The United States wanted to have a large number of nuclear weapons to be able to back up their threat of nuclear attacks on Russian soil. If the USSR were to launch, the United States wanted to have a second strike capability which would cripple the Russian…
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…, and fears which it generated might easily, many believed, evolve into a shooting war. If that occurred and nuclear weapons were used, it would, some contended, destroy civilization. But despite strenuous efforts, particularly by the United States government…
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…Today we are living in a time of increasing tolerance when it comes to alternative family forms, those other than the nuclear family. The nuclear family, made up of two biological parents and their children, is associated with the stability of the 1950s…
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Nuclear reactors are a great achievement in the human race. Reactors where originally used for research into the world of nuclear energy. The first reactor was built and sustained by the Italian scientist Enrico Fermi, at the University of Chicago…
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…, even today, the nuclear threat is not far from over. As stated by William E.Burrows and Robert Windrem, in their book "Critical Mass" state, "The proliferation of super weapons is now the most dangerous specter facing this planet." In the 1950s…
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…and biological weapons are easier to acquire than nuclear devices: relatively little scientific training is required for their production, and they can be concocted in rather simple laboratories using readily available materials. And at the same time that chemical…
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