Nuclear Weapon Site

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Nuclear Weapon Site
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Welcome to ChimaShadw's Nuclear
Weapons Site
This webpage was created in response to an assignment of Mr. Gen, and
English 9 teacher at E.S.H.S. Feel free to use this information to help you with
your studies =)

Nuclear Weapons (the non-use of in the future) My Other Pages:
Nuclear Energy: Ionization Land of the Shady Planet
Radiation Sickness The Star-Crossed Lovers Page
Hiroshima: History Utopia..
God's Page..
The Cold War
The Damage Gallery

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Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear Weapons
In 1939, during World War Two, America began the Manhattan Project, developing an atomic bomb.
This weapon was tested, and then used in warfare on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan. This city sustained
massive damage from the nuclear energy in the explosion. Many people died of the initial effects, but
many more died of radiation sickness. For about 70 years, Hiroshima was radioactive and pretty much
uninhabitable.
Nuclear weapons are inhumane; they should not be used in warfare, or at any other time. The damage
they cause is irreversible, and the pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons is inexcusable. When a
nuclear weapon is dropped, everything is destroyed, and the radiation left over makes the place
uninhabitable, though plants grow bigger and faster from the radiation left over. Nuclear power should
not be used to make weapons, though nuclear energy should be used for medical reasons, and any
environmentally safe uses that are for the betterment of humanity and don't cause death -- to plants
and/or animals.
Nuclear weapons are too powerful and destructive to be used in warfare, the threat of nuclear warfare is
very intense and frightening, just take a look at the Cold War. Nuclear weaponry is very bad, because of
the suffering caused, it is best to be at ground zero or far enough away from the explosion to be
unaffected by it. This is not right; one should not have to go through radiation sickness just because one
was not close enough to be disintegrated. The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went through terrible
lives, with pain and suffering, their skin came of, for God's sakes! This is not acceptable behavior in this
day and age! War should not be warped to kill civilians, war has been, and always will be for the people
who want to fight war, such as politicians and very dedicated people (which includes religious observers
and patriots) that want only for their side to win. Civilians should not have been brought into the war, nor
should they ever be! Nuclear weapons do just this: they bring civilians into war with their death and
suffering.
Nuclear weapons should never be used again, think of it: if a nuclear bomb is used in the future, the
children of today may have to die in pain and suffering. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DIE WITH
PAIN AND SUFFERING!!!!! Radiation therapy is used to prevent this outcome for cancer patients, but
nuclear weapons are used to make this happen, anyone that doesn't veto the use of a nuclear weapon is
participating in an inhuman slaughter.
Mass murdering of humans (or slaughters) is not an accepted form of punishment, and has not been since
the Civil War, maybe even World War II, even though they should not have been accepted. During the
Civil War time, the Native Americans were slaughtered, and during World War II, the Nazis
systematically killed Jewish followers, twins, homosexuals and many other peoples that are rather
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Nuclear Weapons
unknown to children in American schools, from lack of *great* importance, like death has no great
importance. Most people think that only Jewish people were killed, this is not true. During World War II,
the United States slaughtered thousands of people when they dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Again, this form of punishment is inexcusable.
If one is going to punish someone else, one must take in all the factors, the people who died in Hiroshima
should not have been punished, they had nothing to do with the war, only military personnel, if anyone at
all, and government officials who play a part in whatever war is taking place should be punished, it is
NOT fair to punish someone who has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION,
WHICHEVER THIS SITUATION MAY BE! Nuclear warfare does not take this into consideration, 'tis
just about who has the bigger bomb and what will be destroyed. Governments do not take civilian
suffering into consideration, just what will be affected. This is how it is in most wars, but it used to be
with smaller bombs.
This is why nuclear bombs are bad and should never again be used. Nuclear energy, used for the
betterment of humanity is good, though, because it may save life and prevent suffering, such as with
cancer patients. It is said that pot (marijuana) can be used to prevent pain in cancer patients resulting
from radiation therapy, and this helps to prove that many bad things can be used for good purposes when
used differently. Nuclear weapons have no other uses but to destroy, and should never again be
used. Though, maybe Earth should keep its supply of nuclear weapons, just in case of an alien invasion,
such as in the movie Independence Day and Mars Attacks, where humans would need nuclear weapons
to battle the onslaught of deadly creatures from the far reaches of space.
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Burn Pictures ~These are pictures of burn victims from the atom bombs of Japan *Photo Credits (Left to
Right): U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Defense
Thermonuclear Ground Burst ~*Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Energy
Fireball From an Air Burst in the Megaton Energy Range ~*Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force
House Before Nuclear Weapons Test ~Unreinforced brick house with 5-psi overpressure *Photo Credit:
Nuclear Defense Agency
House After Nuclear Weapons Test ~Unreinforced brick house with 5-psi overpressure *Photo Credit:
Nuclear Defense Agency
Hiroshima: the Effects of the Atom Bomb ~*Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force
Detroit: 1-Mt Nuclear Weapon Damage
Detroit: 25-Mt Nuclear Weapon Damage

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Burn injuries from the blast
The burns of this victim correspond
with the dark portions of the kimono
worn at the time of the explosion
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thermonuclear ground burst
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air burst fire ball: megaton energy range
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Nuclear Energy
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Nuclear Energy: Ionization
Nuclear physics is the study of nuclear energy. There are two ways of creating nuclear energy: fission
and fusion.
Nuclear weapons work with the power of fission. When a neutron hits a Uranium molecule of U-235, it
changes the structure, creating an imbalance, which divides the cell into two lighter cells and some
leftover, high-energy, neutrons. This split releases approximately 200MeW. The leftover neutrons then
hit other U-235 cells, and so on and so forth. This chain reaction creates a large amount of energy.
The energy of one pound of Uranium exploding at 1/10,000 of a second is equal to that of 15,000 tons of
exploding TNT. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan was the height of the average adult male
of the 1940s, and vaporized a radius of four miles. And within a radius of about 20 miles from the
hypocenter of the explosion, there was sever damage, which was much the work of fire.
The radiation left over from the explosion of an atom bomb causes radiation sickness, and an
exaggerated growth rate in plants.
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Radiaton Sickness
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Radiation Sickness
Radiation is divided into two types: ionizing and nonionizing. Nonionizing types include light, radio
waves, micro waves and radar. Nonionizing types are generally not tissue-harming.
Ionizing radiation produces immediate chemical effects, or ionization, on human tissue, and include
gamma rays, X-rays, and particle bombardment. This type can be used for medical testing, sterilization,
weapons, as well as many other uses.
Radiation sickness happens when humans or animals receive too much radiation. Exposure can be one
large exposure (acute), or a series of smaller exposures (chronic). Radiation sickness is generally
assosiated with acute exposure, and presents a series of characteristic symptoms in a specific order.
The degree of radiation sickness is dependent upon the dose and rate of exposure. Total body exposure of
100 roentgens causes radiation sickness. Total body exposure of 400 roentgens causes radiation sickness
and death for half of exposed individuals. 100,000 rads causes almost immediate unconsciousness and
death within an hour. In severe cases, death may occur within two to four weeks, those who survive six
weeks after a single, large dose of ionization (such as the affect of a nuclear weapon explosion, or
exposure to nuclear energy) may generally be expected to recover.
The severety of the syptoms and illness depends on the duration of the exposure, which type of radiation
one has been exposed to, the amount of radiation and the body areas that were exposed. Symptoms do
not usually occur directly after exposure, the best way to determine the severity of exposure is: the length
of time between the exposure and the onset of symptoms, the severity of symptoms, and the severity of
change in white blood cell count.
The symptoms of radiation sickness are vomiting (may include vomiting blood), diarrhea, skin burns,
fatigue (can include fainting and weakness), dehydration, bleeding (from the nose, mouth, gums and
rectum), open skin sores, ulceration (peeling and/or disintegration) of oral mucous membranes, the
esophogus and internal tissues, inflammation, and hair loss.
The tissues most affected by ionization are those where the cells are rapidly reproducing. These tissues
include blood forming tissues, the gonads, the skin, and tissues of the digestive tract.
Some tissues of the body are more affected by radiation than other tissues, these tissues are said to be
more radiosensitive. The self renewal tissues are the most radiosensitive tissues of the body.
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Hiroshima
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History of Hiroshima
The city of Hiroshima, Japan was ordered to be built on the shores of Hiroshima Bay on April 15, 1589,
by a Terumoto Mori from Koriyama Castle of Yoshida, Takata County. The city was finished, with a
castle and a moat, in 1593. The islands of Niho, Eba, and Ujina (present Motoujina) were merely small
islands at that time, but gradually grew larger as silt collected with time; these became part of the
growing Hiroshima area. Hiroshima gained a commercial port in 1880, and then a railway in June of
1894, and both were used to transport military goods. Hiroshima then became a military district, with the
wonderful port location and easy transportation access, it was quite suitable for a military installation.
Many military installations were built when it was decided to convert Hiroshima, one after the other,
steadily strengthening Hiroshima as an army base.
Through a barrage of wars, Hiroshima prospered and became an economic and educational city, as well
as a military city. Japan entered the Greater East Asia War (the Pacific War) when they launched an
attack on the northern Malay Peninsula and attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 8, 1941. Japan
was divided into two parts during the war, as the Japanese wanted to be prepared in case Tokyo fell. The
First General Headquarters was situated in Tokyo, with the Second General Headquarters, under the
command of Marshal Shunroku Hata, in Hiroshima, where the headquarters of the Chugoku District
Governor-General (led by Isei Otsuka), the highest administrative body commissioned by the central
government, was also established.
The very real fear of air raids and bombings prompted evacuations of non-essential people from
Hiroshima, and middle school girls helped clear fire lanes, just in case of a bombing, to control the
spread of fire.
On August 6, 1945, the United States of America dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. This
bomb instantaneously destroyed almost every building in Hiroshima with the power of nuclear energy, in
the form of fission. Wooden houses crumbled or caught fire and burned to ashes, while concrete
buildings' roofs fell in or collapsed. Many city officials died in the explosion, with a total of more than
100,000 dead, including Mayor Awaya, who died at his home. The number of dead also includes the
people who died of radiation sickness in the following years.
The dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II, but then the Cold War
began.
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