Period-7 Pros: If the Yucca Mountain is used as a nuclear waste depository then it will help store the large amount of nuclear waste that has been piling up in the nuclear power plants for many years. This build-up of nuclear waste poses a hazard to the areas that surround the power plants (such as New York City). The Yucca Mountain Depository resides is in a sparsely populated area and lies over 100 miles from the nearest city. Also the government already owns the land so it would be a waste if they did not use it for anything. The government has spent 10 billion dollars on the Yucca Mountain project already so it would be a waste to not use it, don’t we want our tax dollars to be well spent?
His son Kim Jong-un succeeded and has been running a strict dictatorship much like his father. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea also known as North Korea has been under much criticism for being one of the worse nations in the world when it comes to human rights. North Korea has been testing nuclear missiles for over a decade now. The United Nations have sent out stern warnings from all five vetoing countries but it does not seem to phase or even scare the Korean nation. “North Korea also conducted rocket launches in 2006 and 2009.
The people were divided. Both the American people and others around word were soon to find out the horrors of what lay beneath an ash cloud that hung hundreds of miles above the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even the scientists could not quite believe and could not imagine the effects that these two bombs would have, even now, more than 65 years later. News of the atomic bombing was greeted enthusiastically in the U.S.; a poll in Fortune magazine in late 1945 showed a significant minority of Americans wishing that more atomic bombs could have been dropped on Japan. The immediate death toll will never be known, but within four months, it was estimated that that the effects of both bombs had claimed around 166,000 people in Hiroshima, and 80,000 in Nagasaki.
The United States, realizing that if the Nazi's could possibly even, with a tiny amount of possibility, make this weapon would be making them unstoppable. So the US, not liking to be held one step below any one started their own nuclear weapons program, called the Manhattan Project. The U.S. won the first nuclear arms race when they tested the first nuclear weapon on the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The modern nuclear arms race, that is the race between the US, under Harry Truman, and the USSR (Russians), under Joseph Stalin, began in 1946, when the American representative of the newly formed United Nations (UN), Bernard Baruch, suggested that nuclear weapons be eliminated. The Russians refused this proposition and the arms race started.
In October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from physicist Albert Einstein and his Hungarian colleague Leo Szilard, letting him know that a bomb of unprecedented power could be made by tapping the forces of nuclear fission. The two scientists, who had fled from Europe in order to escape Nazism, feared that Hitler-Germany was already working on the problem. They fear this because if the Germans were to be the first to develop the envisaged "atomic bomb," Hitler would have had a weapon in his hands that would make it possible for him to destroy his enemies and rule the world. Einstein and Szilard urged the government of the United States to join the race for the atomic bomb to end this nightmare. Roosevelt agreed to join and for the next four and half years a huge, secret effort was launched in cooperation with the United Kingdom.
The reality of the threat is echoed by the researchers at Los Alamos who were taking bets shortly before the bomb’s test on whether the entire state of New Mexico would be incinerated by the bomb’s successful detonation; or the possibility that the atmosphere would be ignited by the blast and “blow up” the world. What is more horrifying—stating these events with the belief that they were genuine possibilities and continuing with the test or making these statements in the context of a kind of gallows humor with no basis in reality? In this case, as well as the case of the Monitor, those involved with developing a new, technologically superior weapon were only interested in achieving their goal. The possibility of negative consequences due to the nuclear blast was given no consideration; as if the headlong charge to achieve the goal of developing the atom bomb any possible negative consequences for those living in the vicinity of the laboratory and those it would be used against were not worth
American army should be back from Iraq Presence of American army in Iraq is controversial since the beginning of Iraq American war from 2003. The main reason to call the war against Iraq was not more than developing of underground atomic power inside the Iraq which could be the threat against American and the rest of the world. America and its alliance entered into Iraq and searched for those atomic plants but were unable to found any of them, which mean Iraq war was totally failed at the beginning and there was no more reason to stay over there. Any independent nation has its full right to run its government under the way which its public wants. If the government is agonist the people's feelings, then the people have the moral authority to change the government system which is also under the definition of democracy; for the people, to the people and by the people.
co Woefully Unprepared | the Tale of Japan’s TEPCO | | The Fukushima Crisis of March 2011 and the Downfall of Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (Group Project for ACC3611: Corporate Governance and Ethics – Abridged Version) | Note: The authors of this case agree to the re-editing and publishing of this case. Woefully Unprepared: The Tale of Japan’s TEPCO Vice President Sakae Muto surveyed the chaos in the communications room at the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). An earthquake had struck Japan, but the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant showed no signs of abating. The company was woefully unprepared to deal with the disaster and no one was certain of what was happening at the power plant. Muto was conscious of a sense of bewilderment.
In response to the bombing of Japan, the Soviet Union and Communist China developed their own nuclear weapons. This marked the beginning of the Cold War, the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United Sates was due to the fact that both countries wanted to become the sole superpower of the world, and they also disagreed on what the world should look like postwar. The Cold War lasted for several years and had many period of heightened tension such as the Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. World War II impacted America in many ways the GI Bill helped stimulate the economy which led to development and expansion into the west. Due to the financial securities family sizes increased and gave us the baby boom era.
January 1, 2000, also known as the Y2K bug that was supposed to wipe out all computers. Society warned that it could have deadly effects such as solar flares, severe earthquakes, “land changes” and “seismic explosions”. Did any of this happen? No. 2.