Nuclear_Warfare

Nuclear Warfare Nuclear Warfare: A Total Disaster “We have genuflected before the gods of science only to find that is has given us the atomic bomb, producing fear and anxieties that science can never mitigate” (Martin Luther King qtd. in The Columbia World of Quotations). August 6, 1945 was the day that World War II took a severe turn with the atomic bomb hitting Hiroshima. Three days later on the 9th, the second bomb hit Nagasaki. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a drastic decision made by the United States, which produced an aftermath that would devastate the two cities for years. The usage and repercussions of the atomic bomb has now resulted in anxiety with the thought that North Korea might possess nuclear power. I intend to show that the dropping of the atomic bomb was the beginning of world nuclear power struggle. When the atomic bomb went off over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a flash. When the atomic bomb went off in Nagasaki on August 9th, more then 60,000 people died (Hogan 1). To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such nuclear, bomb, atomic, world, hiroshima, war, united, states, north, power, now, korea, weapons, nagasaki, fear, death, april, after, soon, off, new, kwak, just, dropping, august, years, weapon, way, took, told, thought, skin, radiation, quick, qtd