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Nuclear Weapon Essays and Term Papers
Anthrax: Chemical WarfareHaving the threat of Anthrax falling in to the hands of terrorist or paramilitary groups strikes fear in our way of chemical warfare. During the Gulf War, Iraq had large stores of anthrax, which were later destroyed during the war. U.S. military experts say that, Saddam has the capabilities of ...
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Government Lies From VietnamFor nearly a decade, the civil conflict in Vietnam was merely a footnote to the evening news in the United States. But with the first reports of an “unprovoked attack” on the U.S. destroyer Maddox by the North Vietnamese in the summer of 1964, Americans were faced with a whole new vernacular of ...
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Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
C O U L D G A M B L I N G S A V ...
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Propaganda In ElectionsHave you ever seen a TV commercial portraying a disastrous automobile
accident, and then you reminds you to wear your seatbealts?!?! Believe it or not,
that's using a technique in propaganda called the fear appeal.
Propaganda is more widespread than people picture. Propaganda is being
used for ...
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Siddhartha Religion plays a large part in everyone’s life. In Herman Hesse’s epic story the aspect of religion is taken apart and looked at from nearly every possible angle. There are many key concepts revolving around the main theme of religion, but three which seem to me to be the most important and ...
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Is The United States Giving Too Much To The United Nations??
Does it seem like whenever the United Nations (UN) sends peacekeepers to a region that the United States (US) bears the majority of the debt and load of troops? Does it seem that we are the only country supply material and "doing it all?" Is the US the worlds police department? No we aren't. ...
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Terrorism 2In June 1914: A young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his
pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war
began. In the 1940s: The French resistance kill occupying troops when and
how they can. In June 1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in Central France,
German SS ...
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Asteroid DefenseWhen it comes down to developing a way to defend the entire planet from
destruction I am all for it. A large asteroid or comet hitting the earth is not
a common occurrence. But it has happened many times before and when it does
happen again the asteroid may wipe out all life, including humans. ...
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An Explanation Of TerrorismAfter browsing through Stephen E. Atkins book Terrorism, I soon learned many
interesting things regarding the history of terrorism. It seems this form of
protest has been around since Biblical times. Also, the main goal of a
terrorist is not to do damage to one peticular person or place, but to ...
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Siddhartha 2Religion plays a large part in everyone’s life. In Herman Hesse’s epic story Siddhartha the aspect of religion is taken apart and looked at from nearly every possible angle. There are many key concepts revolving around the main theme of religion, but three which seem to me to be the ...
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Applications of Artificial IntelligenceThe Real Application of Artificial Intelligence
A computer that thinks is probably the most advanced technology that current computer scientists dream about. It would be such a wonderful time when one day human can see a smart, efficient, creative, faithful, programmable companion that also ...
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Comparing the M-16 and AK-47The great military debate that has existed for decades attributes to which firearm has the better rifle platform, Eugene Stoner’s M-16 or Mikhail Kalishnikov’s AK-47? Both are used extensively by police and military forces around the world. These two weapons platforms have been going head to head ...
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Nucular WarNuclear Weapons are explosive devices made to release nuclear energy. The first atomic bomb, which was tested on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, represented a completely new type of artificial explosive. All explosives get their power from the rapid burning or decomposition of some ...
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One Hundred Years Of SolitudeIt was quite probably the most important event of World War II. Its consequences were greater than those of any other event of the war. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima and dropped the first atomic bomb through ...
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After The Atomic BombThe development and usage of the first atomic bombs has caused a change in military, political, and public functionality of the world today. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki revolutionized warfare by killing large masses of civilian population with a single strike. The bombs’ effects from ...
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Effects Of The Atomic BombNuclear / Particle Physics s on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Ever since the dawn of time man has found new ways of killing each other. The most destructive way of killing people known to man would have to be the atomic bomb. The reason why the atomic bomb is so destructive is that when it is detonated, ...
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Atomic DiplomacyThe emergence of the United States as a dominant party in balance of power equations is a relatively new phenomenon in world history. New military technology coupled with increased global integration has allowed the United States to reinvent the fundamental assumptions of international diplomacy ...
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Biological Warfare And TerrorismIt was another calm early morning on the subway train. Many of the passengers were napping on their way to work. The train slowed to a stop to allow more passengers on, then sped along to its destination, the central government district in Tokyo. Many of the passengers found it strange that a man ...
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Atomic Bomb 9During wartime, horrible atrocities against all of humanity must be dealt with. Crimes against humanity, as never witnessed before, and hopefully to never be seen again, occurred during the course of World War II. America has always, and most likely will always place a high value on American ...
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