Stanley Kubrick’s film deals comically with the fear that the opposing sides had of nuclear annihilation and their strategic deterrence as a direct consequence of this fear. Dr. Strangelove defines deterrence as “the art of producing in the mind of the enemy fear to attack”. Kubrick uses the ultimate deterrence: mutually assured destruction. The doomsday device represents the dangers of mutually assured destruction, an unstoppable deterrence device. In the film the deterrence device built by the Soviet Union is impossible to stop and once triggered will release enough radiation to make the world uninhabitable for one hundred years.
PROS AND CONS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY While energy from coal, oil and gas are the main source of world’s energy, another of today’s energy source is nuclear power. From the climate change viewpoint nuclear power has certain advantage. Nuclear energy releases nearly no carbon dioxide and therefore does not contribute to global warming. However, nuclear energy does have some tremendous downsides. The prime examples are demonstrated in the catastrophe in Chernobyl and more recently after a 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused the shutdown of reactors in Fukushima, Japan.
First, an asteroid explosion so big to wipe out all the dinosaurs most likely would have made a bigger impact on the Earth. Second, the volcano theory just doesn’t make much sense to me. How can a volcano destroy all the dinosaurs? It just does not make since. The continental drift theory makes more sense.
It releases a huge amount of energy and all the neutrons released cause fission with the other surrounding nuclei of uranium-253, and this is what causes a chain reaction. After the fission process has started it has to continue the release of energy to create a big enough reaction. The results depend on how many neutrons actually collide with uranium-253, and how many pass to the surrounding area without colliding with the nuclei. There are three different things that could happen, in a subcritical process if there are only three uranium nuclei present and only one or two actually fission then the process soon dies out. The critical process requires that one neutron from each fission process produces only one more fission process.
So, in essence, when we develop nuclear energy, we are committing ourselves to managing the left over fuel and anything else that gets contaminated for infinity. Sure, the earth is very big, and nice, remote places can be found to bury the material deeply – kind of born from the earth and returned to it, but the problem is, most places don’t want to house these dumps because they will be eternal hazards. If
The Core The Core is a movie made by Paramount Pictures back in 2003. The concept of this movie focuses on a geological catastrophe that brings forth the end of the world; when the liquid outer core inside the Earth ceased to rotate. Some basic scientific facts are accurate in the movie; however, their implication is not of concern but rather entertainment and adventure. The concept of the movie is to have a team of scientists get to the outer core of the Earth and get it to rotate again so that the Earth’s magnetic field would regenerate. The Earth’s interior was presented accurately in the movie: crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
So to prevent the massive amount of human loss the atomic bomb would be the best idea. Even though the atomic bomb killed many innocent people the US was still
After production, the radioactive waste produced in nuclear power is incredibly harmful and can take years to decay and no longer be radioactive. Finding space, and specific materials which radiation cannot go through is difficult and if nuclear power became a mass provider of energy, it is unclear of whether or not there would be enough space to store the radioactive matter. If waste is not disposed of correctly, it can cause widespread destruction. The events of Chernobyl are a huge example of the major risks taken in the production of nuclear power. Currently radioactive waste is stored in steel lined concrete basins in water, or far underground in geologically
When the temperature gets high enough, hydrogen nuclei undergo nuclear fusion to form helium nuclei and give out massive amounts of heat and light. Before the star begins its life, there are the components that will create the star. However, the ultimate demise of a star is somewhat of a mystery. The most interesting aspects during creation and during death, what happens during life, at least for star, are quite inconsequential. Before there was space, there was a set amount of matter.
To better understand these great contributions you must first understand what a black hole is. Black holes are portions of space-time where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. Physicist surmise that a black hole is formed when a star three times the size of the sun burns off all the nuclear fuel in it (Melissa 14), also known as the end of its life, and collapses under its own weight ("Stephen Hawking Makes"). The holes gravity pulls all matter and objects into a tiny space, in fact, the term 'black hole' comes from the simple fact that even light can't escape its great gravitational field (Melissa 15). This was the theory until Hawking realized entropy could be applied to the study if black holes.