Essays on Nuclear War

“That was the longest 45 seconds that I ever lived” those were the words of then Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Boeing B-29 named Enola Gay, describing the period that went by waiting for the bomb to explode. Imagine this, a family setting in...

If an average nuclear weapon was detonated over a city, everything within a fifty mile radius of the blast would be flattened. With this being said, there are about 13,890 nuclear warheads in the world. Russia owns about 6,500 of them and the United States...

This report will cover topics on Nuclear Warfare. The following things will be discussed in this topic is Creation/Testing of nuclear weapons, where the bombs were used, human and ecological risks and environmental risks that come with and after a nuclear war. The Creation/Testing In...

Of the three theories, nuclear war is least likely to occur using a liberal approach. Liberalism is an approach in which moral and political positions are based on the pursuit of liberty and equality for all before law. Although there are many different branches and...

Dr. Strangelove is a 1964 political satire of the Cold War between the united States and the Soviet Union. It mainly focuses on the fear, at that time, of nuclear war. Within the story one witnesses a rogue U.S. Air force general who calls a...

Since WWII and the arms race of the cold war, the US and Russia have been fighting to be the nuclear “superpower” of the world. The question of “arm” (continue testing, building, and deploying nuclear weapons) or “disarm” (reduce nuclear stockpiles) has been a point...

The Cuban Missile Crisis can be viewed as a turning point in global nuclear armament. It has been said that the event brought the world closer nuclear war than anything before or after (Kross, 32). The attitudes of American government officials towards the escalation of...

On February 1946, a message arrived in Washington from Moscow, sent by diplomat George F. Kennan. This “Long Telegram”, as it is known, explained in 8,000 words how the soviets longed for a war against the United States of America (USA) and advised the American...

Have you ever been in fear? American and many other countries have been in fear because of the thought of nuclear weapons were being created in Iran. People have been in fear long enough. It is time for citizens to take action, and stop these...

The policies and treaties that spurred from the beginning of the world’s rude introduction to nuclear bombs have had many drastic ratifications and improvements as governments and people alike have become increasingly aware of their capabilities to end the world, even though these extremely dangerous...

Introduction In recent years, a wide array of new technologies have entered the modern battlefield, giving rise to new means and methods of warfare, such as cyber-attacks, armed drones, and robots, including autonomous weapons. While there can be no doubt that international humanitarian law (IHL)...

Many people see Iran as a hostile country due to a combination of concerns over development of ballistic missiles and nuclear capabilities threatening the region, the Iran hostage crises, where the US embassy was violated, and Americans were held hostage illegally under international law. Those...