Nuclear Project by Hela Biruk [STUDENT] https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb Hela Biruk en-us 2019-06-27 16:10:13 UTC 2025-05-03 08:16:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/91810442/4eab4ab0d7f4cb776574703dd4e24fd6/giraffe_icon.svg Pros hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456143
  • The world would never be filled with harmful radiation that can kill thousands of people in one minute. 
  • Countries would save billions of dollars that can be used for more important problems.
  • No country would have to worry about being bombed when at war.
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  • In the future wars might carry out longer than needed, causing the economy of countries to go down.
  • It will decrease the power of countries that haven’t signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
    • ]]>     2019-06-27 16:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456144     Price of Nuclear Weapons hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456146 “The United states have spent 179 billion dollars throughout 2010-2018, with an average of about 20 billion dollars per year. This cost doesn't even include the cost of maintaining nuclear deterrent.” - According to ATI.org. There is a long list of important needs for America such as job employment and trade deficit that the 179 billion dollars can be used for.]]> 2019-06-27 16:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456146 Nuclear Weapons Radiation Side Effects hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456147 Being exposed to high levels of radiation can result in small injuries such as, skin burn and radiation syndrome, but also long lasting injuries like cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Being exposed to low levels of radiation might not have high effects on adults but are deadly to children.]]> 2019-06-27 16:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456147 Question Number 6 hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456149 Should any country be allowed to make nuclear weapons? (ours included) 
    Who should regulate this?  How?]]>     2019-06-27 16:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456149     Answer hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456470 Countries should not be allowed to make nuclear weapons. All countries should sign a treaty saying that they will never make nuclear weapons and that they will pay for the cost of a nuclear weapon if it were to be released from their country.]]> 2019-06-27 16:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369456470 Cost hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369464161 In 1945 a nuclear bomb, from the United States, dropped on Hiroshima. This bomb destroyed over 13 square kilometers. The heart of the explosion reached several million degrees centigrade. Everybody within half a mile of the center of the blast was killed and 92 percent of the city’s structures were destroyed or damaged. Around 75,000 people were killed immediately but many more died from radiation poisoning. By the end of 1950, the death toll was 200,000.” - Newint.org]]> 2019-06-27 17:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369464161 History hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369632499
  • Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He assembled the first atomic bomb.
  • The first nuclear weapon explosion, that was created by the United States, took place on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico. 
  • The United States bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. This event killed and injured 130,000 people. On August 9, 1945, the United States bombed Nagasaki.
  • The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapon in 1949. The United Kingdom conducted its first nuclear weapon in 1952, France 1960, and China 1964.
  • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was published in 1968, and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was put into action in 1996.

    • ]]>     2019-06-29 05:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369632499     hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369633961 2019-06-29 06:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369633961 hela_181624 https://padlet.com/hela_181624/uyavugms6tsb/wish/369633967 “A Brief History of Nuclear Weapons States.” Asia Society, asiasociety.org/education/brief-history-nuclear-weapons-states.
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    Macias, Amanda. “The Remarkable Story of the World's First Atomic Bomb.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 9 Aug. 2016, www.businessinsider.com/heres-a-photo-of-the-worlds-first-atomic-bomb-2015-5.
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