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…to provide clean and cheap nuclear power to the masses," while another though, "with this kind of energy present in an atom, nuclear energy could be used to make the ultimate weapon." Thus the real question lies in why so many different interpretations result out…

…in 1953, he moved to end the war in Korea, where peace talks had been going on since 1951. Eisenhower's veiled threat to use nuclear weapons broke the stalemate. An armistice, signed in July 1953, set a boundary between the two Koreas near the 38th parallel…

…the withdrawal, President Bush referred to the terrorist events of September 11 as a fundamental change of circumstances which have resulted in the US now being put in danger from rogue states or terrorists who may have acquired nuclear weapons. Consequently, US wants…

…color in glass and ceramic glazes. Uranium now occupies a key position in nuclear weapons and Nuclear Energy. Pure uranium is a heavy, silvery white metal that melts at 1,132c and boils at 3,818c. The design of metallic fuel rods for nuclear reactors came…

…and his decision to quarantine Cuba on October 22. He also said that any nuclear missile launched from Cuba would be regarded as an attack on the United States by the Soviet Union and demanded that the Soviets remove all of their offensive weapons from Cuba…

…was thinking of all the nuclear weapons, I was also watching a country stand and backing the president. The people were in awe of the president… Americans were proud to be Americans, willing to do anything for their country." The next question…

….         On December 21, Fuchs was accused of giving secret information on the development of nuclear weapons to Soviet scientists. When he finally gave his confession, Fuchs was sentenced to 9 years of prison. After serving his term in prison, Fuchs went to East Germany…

…the Presidency of Kennedy the US acquired information that the Soviets were supplying Castro with nuclear weapons. The US began to weigh their options of fighting and possibly creating a nuclear war if they did not succeed and if they did succeed it would only…

…“No center of population on the earth’s surface is secure from surprise destruction in a single attack. There is no defense in science against the weapon which can destroy civilization.” (Gale 210) The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986…

…victory in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Krushchev 39). In August 1963 the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. This Treaty prevented the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, underwater, and in outer space…