|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 2291 - 2300 of 8016 matching essays
- 2291: Biological And Chemical Weapons
- ... an incapacitating role. Some authors have also speculated about the possible terrorist use of new, genetically engineered agents. These agents are designed to take out certain people such as a certain race for example. World War 1 marked the first time that there was a large-scale use of gas in warfare. The Germans dispersed 168 tons of Chlorine gas from cylinders against the French Salient at Ypres. Total surprise was ... they would burst and set up a high concentration of gas. The Livens projector lacked mobility, accuracy and range but the capacity of its projectiles was four times that of the Stokes mortar. During the war projectors were supplied in two sizes: one 2 ft. 9 in. in length, weighing 100 lbs. and having a maximum range of 1,375 yd.: and the other 4 ft. in length, weighing 150 lbs ... 25, any number of batteries being fired together. The largest simultaneous discharge took place Mar. 21, 1918, when the British Special Brigade (Gas Troops) fired 3,730 shells into Lens and its outskirts. After World War 1 and up to today there have been some major advances in chemical and biological warfare. Recently, there have been many attempts of terrorism that use biological and chemical warfare. The arrest in 1972 ...
- 2292: Cuban Missle Crisis-11pgs
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever, and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. In ... nation, he would use the word "quarantine" instead of "blockade." This suggestion, made by George Ball, Under Secretary of State, was an important one. A blockade, as defined under international treaties is an act of war. A quarantine, on the other hand, is merely an attempt to keep something unwanted out of a particular area. In sum, the U.S. could have its blockade but the international community would not consider it an act of war. The press contacted Kennedy to know about the situation in Cuba. The press knew that there were offensive weapons in Cuba and that Kennedy was preparing a plan to deal with the threat. Kennedy ...
- 2293: Britain In Africa
- ... and diamond fields, and began crossing into the Orange Free State and Transvaal. When the British Government tried to expand and include the two Afrikaner Colonies, the Boers were angry and in 1899 the Boer War began. The Boer War was the most expensive war fought by Great Britain between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. The war was longer and more difficult than the British had anticipated, Black Week brought the defeat of all major British forces ...
- 2294: Biological And Nuclear Weapons
- ... I, on the other hand, believe that the world is becoming a very dangerous place. Even though the world's superpowers condemn nuclear and biological warfare, I believe that the next millennium will bring a war that will make them change their beliefs toward weapons of mass destruction. There are many countries with these weapons. "For the past several years, U.S. government officials noted that there are at least ten ... and also India and Pakistan, the threat of unleashing the power of such a weapon has increased greatly. In the past decades, India and Pakistan have come close on three occasions to starting a nuclear war. Some problems between nations are high and can cause war when the hostility gets too high to handle. The favorite biological weapons of nations with biological weapons are Anthrax, Botulinum, Clostridium and ricin. These agents usually kill the victims within a day or two ...
- 2295: Nuclear Warfare
- ... and money towards disasters. Instead, we spend $25 to $35 billion a year on nuclear weapons to protect ourselves? If we didnt worry about doing anything wrong, we wouldnt have to worry about war. Also, nuclear weapons when deployed clear a lot of land along with natural resources. But most of all they kill innocent civilians who dont deserve to die. Alone at Hiroshima, 135,000 innocent people ... in their body from the explosion. And at Nagasaki, 64,000 civilians were killed by the explosion bias. This is completely wrong and no one has the right to kill innocent people because of a war. We shouldnt have to settle wars by blowing up 50 miles diameter of land, natural resources, and people to prove our point that we are more powerful than you. Also, think about the long ... happen if a terrorist got his hands on an A-bomb. With that kind of threat, there is nothing we can do. For instance, look at the threat that Saddam Hussein posed during the cold war with his nuclear bomb threats. These threats scared America like nothing else. If we banned nuclear weapons everywhere we would never have to worry about anyone bombing us during bad times or times of ...
- 2296: World Order
- ... Huis ten Bosch and negotiations lasted for 10 weeks. On the 29 July 1899 the conference adopted, among others, the Convention for the Peaceful Adjustment of International Differences; the Convention Regarding Laws and Customs of War on Land, and several other declarations. These instruments provided broad principles that were refined and promoted in the Twentieth Century by the United Nations, the Committee on Disarmament and the International Committee of the Red ... the ill-fated League of Nations in 1919 was yet another step towards a global solution to the world's problems. Formed in the aftermath of what was, at the time, believed to be "the war to end all wars", World War One, the League of Nations was established with the aim of preventing another such war taking place and maintaining a global peace. Unfortunately this organisation failed dismally and it has often been blamed for ...
- 2297: Great Gatsby 3
- ... judging women - or perhaps only potential lovers - not only are they judged, they are judged by how well they stand up to his own virtues. Nick leaves the mid-West after he returns from the war, understandably restless and at odds with the traditional, conservative values that, from his account, haven't changed in spite of the tumult of the war. It is this insularity from a changed world no longer structured by the values that had sent young men to war, that decides him to go East, to New York, and learn about bonds. But after one summer out East, a remarkable summer for this morally advantaged young man, he "decided to come back home" ...
- 2298: The Hoa Lo Prison Camp
- The Hoa Lo Prison Camp During the Vietnam war many U.S. soldiers became prisoners of war (POWs). Some of those prisoners ended up in prisons such as the Hoa Lo prison. The Hoa Lo prison, located in the middle of the city of Hanoi, was nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton. It got ... January 27, 1973 the prisoners were all gathered to hear an announcement. The Vietnamese camp commander read the announcement: "an agreement had been signed between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The war was over." They were going home ( Blakey 302 ). It is impossible to imagine the happiness and joy those POWs must have felt knowing they were going to go home. The men went back to ...
- 2299: The Inherent Need For Governme
- ... purposefully deceived with certain information. A nation's defense forces rely heavily on intelligence and secrecy in performing a number of operations in everything from weapons research to the actual waging and fighting of a war. The information utilized by a nation's defense organizations is necessarily kept private and classified in order to maintain a clear advantage over potential enemies. This information may be in the form of weapons research ... and advantage over foreign intelligence services and to maintain national security. An example military research being shielded from public access is the ultra-secret Manhattan Project created and carried out before, during and after World War II. This project was created in the interest of developing nuclear weaponry capable of controlled mass destruction. The experiments carried out in the interest of this project were numerable and extensive, and many were also ... have meant the destruction of human life as a whole. An example of intelligence information obtained in part by espionage and used to gain a clear and decisive advantage over the enemy comes from World War II. During the war the German military utilized a complicated and ingenious method of cyptology in the form of a machine called Enigma . Enigma was an electromechanical machine used to encode messages sent between ...
- 2300: Break Stalin
- ... their old names1. The statues and pictures of Stalin were destroyed and letters were sent to families of those who were killed in battle, which criticized Stalin s weak leadership during the time of the war. Stalin s grave was vandalized during this process, and Khrushchev gained approval from the West. These policies were used to erase the past and ease the minds of those who suffered under the dictator2. Khrushchev ... of it and gain an edge over the Communists if they knew of the problems occurring within the party. Khrushchev accused Stalin of being responsible for mass murders and deportations, the German invasion during World War II (1939-1945), and the USSR s break with Yugoslavia. During this period the public was given a say in the government, even though an extremely minor one, and the judicial system eased it s ... the Soviet Union, and met with the American leadership on several occasions. He cancelled a summit meeting in Paris when an American plane was shot down while spying on the Soviet Union. It helped the war-battered nation avoid further war with the West. Most importantly, he proclaimed the necessity of coexistence with the west and declared that a nuclear war would mean he end of both capitalism and socialism. ...
Search results 2291 - 2300 of 8016 matching essays
|
