Karim

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===In my International Relations class we had the privilege to visit a class in the third grade building. Upon our visit, they educated us on the story __Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes__, which talked about a young girl in Japan who witnessed and suffered the effects of nuclear weapons first hand. I am making this page about nuclear weapons because when i was talking to members of third grade they did not exactly know how bad the bomb was. They knew the effects and diseases but they knew it in a way one would memorize an unfamiliar vocabulary word. I would like the third grade class to truly understand the topic and be able to see how bad it is for themselves. Maybe in the near future their generation could help in nuclear arms control,===

=Effects:=

On Humans:
Human bodies are not designed to withstand the intense heat and radiation a nuclear weapon transmits, thus the reason of creating a weapon of that size. There are some symptoms called acute symptoms, they are what appear in the first four months if you were not of the 850,000 already dead, however in the Hiroshima bombing only 250,000 people lost their lives. Intense burns, general malaise, fatigue, headaches, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, very low white blood cell count, anemia, fever, bloody discharge, and loss of hair. As for the major aftereffects they would include: Prolonged injuries, kelodis (massive scar tissue on burned areas), leukemia, cataracts, and many other deadly cancers.

On surroundings:

 * An abundance of thermal heat was released from the fire ball, under the fireball itself the temperature rose up to 5,000 C.
 * Glass and tile one kilometer from ground zero melted.
 * All paper and wood burned.
 * Gamma rays killed all people in the 1 kilometer range.
 * People were burned 3.5 kilometers away form ground zero.
 * The wind was pushing on objects at 35 tons per meter squared.
 * Wind traveled at 440 meters per second squared.



=Blast wave:=

After the bomb explodes and the gamma rays and radiation are dispersed throughout the air, a blast of wind erupts a couple of seconds later. The blast moves rapidly away from the fireball leveling anything and everything in it path. The image below is an example of what would happen to a regular wooden house when the blast wave reaches it. The house is torn apart and thrown away as if it never existed.

The chart below indicateshow fast the wind moves, depending on the psi of the bomb.
 * ~ Peak wind speeds ||~  ||~   ||
 * =50 psi= || =934 mph= ||
 * =20 psi= || =502 mph= ||
 * =10 psi= || =294 mph= ||
 * =5 psi= || =163 mph= ||
 * =2 psi= || =70 mph= ||

The image on the right shows how the blast forces objects into one direction, then how the negative forces of the blast move the same object in the opposite direction a couple of seconds later. As a great man"Newton" once said ,"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Thus explaining the shift in winds.





=Hiroshima:=

The picture below shows how the city of Hiroshima, before and after the bombing.

=Before= =After=

=Videos:=

The videos below will enhance your understanding of the bombs power, and shall leave you speechless when faced by the ultimate weapon.
 * 1) Talks about nuclear weapons today, and whats happening to abolish them.
 * 2) A video that shows the bombs sheer power.
 * 3) Shows how many people would die today, if a nuclear weapon was dropped on New York City.
 * 4) I would like you to imagine yourself there, at that time.

I hope the 3rd graders turn out like this.
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How to Nuke:
This is game you could play just to see how easy it is to launch a Nuclear device today. Its a shame that this is what became easy to do, instead of curing cancer, or solving world conflicts.

http://www.nukethehamptons.com/launch.html

=Sources:=

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