I need help with an old movie! Nuclear war based?
Ladybug Ladybug (1963) starring Jane Connell, William Daniels, Nancy Marchand, Estelle Parsons, Alice Playten Wikipedia synopsis: During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, teachers at a secluded countryside elementary school are asked to walk their pupils home after a nuclear bomb warning alarm sounds. Unaware that the alarm was tripped by accident, the teacher and children walk through the countryside with a slowly building sense of doom about the upcoming nuclear holocaust. When the children finally gain access to a bomb shelter, they do not allow an unpopular girl to enter, claiming there isn't enough room for one more. The girl frantically searches for shelter, finding an old abandoned refrigerator which she hides inside, only to suffocate to death. After a boy from the shelter fails to find her, we hear a loud whining noise overhead. The boy cowers to the ground in the shadow of bomber planes passing in the sky above. The film abruptly smashes to black with the words "STOP! STOP! STOP!" written on screen. It is left unclear whether or not a bomb is dropped, or if the children are victims of the panic and paranoia caused by the Cold War. EDIT: Here's a clip from the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFIAY95FB...
Do you think it was militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II?
I've always thought it wasn't strictly necessary, and frankly I'm surprised to hear Eisenhower and MacArthur thought so too. I bet they didn't release that information until fairly recently. I read that Hiroshima was chosen for the first A-Bomb because it was the biggest city in Japan that hadn't already been bombed by conventional bombers, so it would provide a good opportunity for 'damage assessment' by aerial reconnaissance. Truman announced it was a 'military target' (because the Geneva Convention banned targeting civilian populations), and it did have some minor defense industry, but the bomb was targeted at city hall, at the center of population, not at the defense industry on the edge of town. Also I read the bomb was much more powerful than we'd expected, because of a miscalculation someone made somewhere. One theory is that we'd spent so much to develop the bomb we had to use it -somewhere-. Another theory is that we wanted to show the USSR we wouldn't stand for them moving into Japan and simply taking it over, as they had with the Iron Curtain countries. (Though that seems unlikely, and must have even then.) Clearly, as the only nuclear nation the US would become a superpower after the war. Perhaps some politicians thought the existence of nuclear weapons would make war obsolete altogether. On the other hand, when Pres. Truman made the decision, he had no idea of the ongoing damage the bomb would do. He was told only that it was a big huge bomb that could destroy most of a city, and that some people outside the blast radius would die of radiation, not the blast itself. He didn't know (because nobody knew) that the bomb would blast tiny radioactive dust particles high into the atmosphere to come down years later, hundreds or even thousands of miles away, and kill more people than the blast itself. We shot off dozens, maybe even hundreds of these weapons in the atmosphere right here in the US before we figured that out. It's possible a-bombs have killed more Americans, at home, than Japanese.
The u.s. is the only country ever to have dropped atomic bombs on living people. horrible, isn't it?
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan were on cities with no significant military targets. I had family on both sides of WWII and lost family on both sides. Dropping the atomic bombs took a lot of consideration from the government back then and decided that it was the only option they had to avoid large scale death invading, both to the US and to Japanese civilians. If it had to be done, then I agree with you, why not a legitimate target? Pearl Harbor was a military target attack by "surprise". The Japanese officials who were to deliver the notice of war that morning were delayed in a US waiting room and were not able to deliver the notice prior to the attack. War history is written by the victors, so it was a surprise. To rally America into war, the President called it a surprise in his radio address. I ask any of you to take a trip to Hiroshima and visit the museum. My mother's family was on the other side of the mountain range from Nagasaki and that is what saved them, but they did witness the cloud, had some affect of the fire, and saw the destruction when they went to help. Japan's research at the time determined that the bomb was not possible with the technology available, so they did not believe the US's claim they had it. Japan was negotiating for surrender after the first but the US want unconditional, so dropped the second. I understand the decision to drop, just not the target. PaulHalloway-I do disagree with you on the legitemacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being military targets. May 1945 the target committee listed Hiroshima as a class AA target using year old inteligence. The depot had been moved in Oct 1944. Nagasaki was never on the Target committee's list. The only other reason for Hiroshima to be targeted was the terrain and larger city. Mountains around Hiroshima would increase the affects of the blast and the size of the city would allow that if the bomb was off target, would still cause mass distruction and casualties. It was also in the original plan recommendation to follow the bombing by an incendiary bombing of the city. Also the orders from Gen Spaatz on July 1945, identified the city as the target, not any military base, contrary to Truman's direction to Sec. of War Stimson.
What would happen to me if a nuke hit columbus ohio?
Me and my friend were just talking and we were wondering what kind of impact would a nuke have on us if one was dropped on columbus ohio? We live about 20 minutes (~20 miles) away in pickerington ohio. Would our houses windows be blown out? Would our houses catch on fire? Would we have to worry about radiation? Any other cool information you could give us would be good to know to. 2 types of bombs we thought of, Tsar and the Hiroshima bombs. Thanks
How did nuclear weapons influenced the cold war?
Be sure to include Brinkmanship into your paper, specifically the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also include the M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) Theory. Which explain why Nuclear War with Russia would have really never happened. What it means is that both nations are mutually assured of complete destruction. We shot one at them, they shot four at us, we shot ten at them and eventually the world is gone.
What would happen if Russia dropped a bomb on the Pentagon?
A lot of bombs would make their way back over to Russia in very short order.First of all, short of a nuclear bomb or an obscenely unwieldy conventional device, the Pentagon is too big to be totally destroyed by a single bomb. It’s the world’s largest office building by floor area; and unlike a skyscraper, all that floor space is spread out over more than 60 acres of area.Now, if Russia were able to land its largest conventional weapon, the “Father of All Bombs,” right in the middle of the Pentagon, then its reported 300 meter blast radius would be sufficient to destroy most of the building[1] . But that bomb needs to be delivered by an easily detectable bomber that would have been picked up and intercepted well before it got anywhere close to Washington, DC.Even if, say, a major (and, in my mind, epic) aerial battle ensued between America’s interceptors and Russia’s escort fighters while Russian bombers pushed ever deeper into America’s airspace, there would be more than enough time for America’s military and political leadership to evacuate and plot their retaliation.But even if, somehow, the US were caught totally by surprise by the attack and the Pentagon were utterly destroyed, and the Secretary of Defense and much of the military’s senior leadership killed, the actual headquarters of the US Northern Command is in Colorado, the US Strategic Command is in Nebraska, and the US European Command is in Germany. In effect, all the front-line commanders needed to implement a swift retaliation would still be very much alive and in direct communication with the President of the United States for authorization to shoot back.It would not end well for Russia.Footnotes[1] FOAB vs MOAB: Russia’s answer to America’s ‘mother of all bombs’
What would happen if I had a small nuke in my house and the police found out?
How did the police find out? Somebody ratted you out. That person knows a lot, and is in fed custody telling everything he knows to try to avoid life in the hole.How did you get it? Collaborators obviously. The feds work up the ladder of contacts really fast in a case like this. Very soon, everybody you've ever had contact with will have their lives scrutinized in minute detail, and your source of the nuke will likely be outed. Hopefully kept secret until we can send special forces to the part of the world where they came from and take them out. This is a declaration of war. So, when they come for you, you either push the button or you don't. Your tip off, if you're paying attention, is that all your neighbors have quietly been spirited away and you're all alone. Then the robot will come for you. Either you have a dead man switch and there's nothing they can do about it. Or you don't, and they want to take you out before you can detonate. In either case, one second you will exist, and the next, you won't.And for what?