Education+and+Prevention+of+Nuclear+Disasters+and+Arms

When we first stumbled upon the nuclear age it was full of fear and doubt, even without the horrible disasters that happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.This is why nuclear energy is still untamed by man, despite the pleas that we have over the years.from the unsafe storing conditions to the power plants that can be lose control from anyone one little problem should it arise. But as always to understand the threat of one problem we must first go back and understand the beginning of it and what it has become today.

Germany 1938 Scientists Otto Hahn,Lise Meitner,Enrico Fermi all working towards the discovery of how to make make a fissionable processes that cold be controlled.Enrico Fermi then went to the united states to assist them in the building of the wolds first atomic weapon.The project was called The Manhattan Project.Through the following years many civilians scientist, and military officials worked in complete secrecy of the general public, even to go as far as hire some civilians to help some things without knowing it.Many Many days were put into this project, there was even a reported cause of acute radiation. But trough all the dangers of this project it was completed.

July 16,1945 After Spending nearly $ 2 million dollars and six years from the start of the project.They were finally ready to test the weapon in the site at Trinity at Los Alamos,New Mexico.



At 05:29:45 local time, despite the estimates of something from a dud to blast that might set the world on fire, the bomb was set off. The blast was so bright it could be seen from miles away. media type="youtube" key="FFZvCJYDme0?fs=1" height="390" width="480"[|Source]

It was reported that even a blind girl saw the flash.It proved in that moment that the fission process could and would be weaponized, and the first people to feel its affects would be Japan.

The Allies had won war on the European front, and now their views shifted to the threat that was japan. The Bomb was named Fat Man, and was to be dropped on then Nagasaki, and Little boy on Hiroshima. The effects of th ese weapons were and still are scaring and the debated use of them continues to this day.Many of the citizens died in the few seconds after the bomb went off, plus those that suffered from the fallout and radio activity. Many were burned and blinded from the intense radiation, thousands of innocent lives were lost in a few sparse seconds but the damage was massive and horrid. Photo of a victim that was about 250 meters away at Sumitomo Bank .Can be seen at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Victim From about 10 kilometers away judging by the burns. since severity is higher on the left shoulder then right shows direction to the blast. [|Sumiteru Taniguchi] age 16 when the bombs hit he is now is a survivor and travels around telling people his story and campaigning against any further nuclear bomb uses.

There were many deaths in the coming days after the explosion from radiation sickness and burn victims, soon even the crematories couldn't keep pace so they had to just bury the bodies where they find room.Many times even today bodies are still being found all across Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A stern reminder to what had happened.

Mass grave of atomic victims.

Over the time the weapons had been developed, it was made sure that no one other then the scientist and high priority scientist new about the project.But as time would tell, despite the desperate attempts to make no leaks there were. Many of these were from the Russian spies planted among the scientist, called Enormoz by the Russians, that had been leaking secrets to the Russians. So they too also had the intelligence they needed to make nuclear weapons, despite being excluded by the other allies sharing the new weapons and could have them during the war but couldn't devote the resources to start the project.So after the war they had to come to who should have the power to keep this destructive new power.In the coming years many new nations would come to make and test their own nuclear arms and test them. Hundreds of nuclear tests were done and all the fallout was shot it into the atmosphere.Whole islands and towns designed to test the effects a nuclear weapon would do to them.Soon America and The Soviet Union would enter a arms race, Then the cold war would Involve Cuba since Russia was delivering ICBM shells and warheads to Cuba. Trying to say they were for defense in case of a American attack.

During the whole of the cold war America and The Soviet Union both produced a staggering amount of atomic weapons, that are still around today.They also heavily tested the said weapons above ground unl eashing untold amounts of radiation and nuclear materials into the air.The end of the soviet union would end the cold war, but there are still tensions today between Russia and America. media type="file" key="damage-destruction.wmv" width="300" height="300"[|Link]

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Now we will look into the soviet union and the Chernobyl accident, and how its effects are still affecting people today.In 1977 the soviet union completed work on what would be the first of 4 reactors of the **V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station** also known as Chernobyl power plant**.**In the coming years the town of pripiyat would come to become a very bustling city unaware of the danger that the power plant could do.So they lived in complete lack of knowing that the power plant that their town thrived off and 10% of Ukraines power at a time, would cause a disaster of untold destruction. The plant had already had a partial core meltdown similar to the one of three mile island, this was quickly repaired and was back on months.Then in April 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history began, all in the name of testing how "safe" the reactor could be in the loss of power and how long the backup generators could come back on. This test was seriously flawed and should have never been attempted. The first mistake was that they didn't have all the teams they need to test the full experiment, second the reactor design was seriously flawed in how the cooled water left and reentered the reactor, third the power needed to test the reactor wasn't at where it was but was severely below where it was needed, even farther below the safety that was supposed to turn on but never did.So they went with it,and April 26 in the early morning hours the plant went off blowing off the pressure that had been building in the reactor 4 chamber, killing anybody in the Vincenty,and blowing off 2,000 ton plate that was on top of the reactor.The explosion was heard from miles away a a bright flume could be seen from pripyat.

In the following hours the town of pripyat and the surrounding areas would be evacuated, and eventually a exclusion area was made where nobody could go due to the high radiation.Nothing was left alive in the area, whole teams of people were paid for by the government just to go around and kill the many animals surrounding the areas of the accident, for fear of the radiation would get stuck in their fur and would spread it.The people arrived first were the firefighters, and they received the highest doses of radiation. Many of them would unwilling play in the cause of the almost second explosion that would have happened if the magma radioactive materials touched the water that they had sprayed in the reactor in a attempt to cool it. The people the government brought in were later known as liquidators sent in to clean and remove any radioactive materials around the accident sight and get the reactor under control.While they were working on trying t keep the explosion under wraps other countries had started to pick up on the radiation levels from the fallout of the explosion and were starting to investigate it.While at first they tried to deny any accident they later had a conference that revealed to the world of what had happened. While the other countries were in shock many of the liquidators were already dead or dieing, sent to their deaths in a furious attempt to clean the wreckage up. Many of the men that went there were poorly informed about the dangers they were about to face and what would happen to them.They worked in small shifts,, thousands and thousands giving their lives against a enemy that could never be defeated. they dumped many different things to help cool and stop the reactor from releasing radiation. The most controversial is the use of Lead, since it can absorb a lot of radiation. While they were placing the bags of lead into the reactor by helicopter, some of it started to melt and was released into the atmoshere where it traveled round the globe.