Atomic Energy for Peace
When the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan and then another on Nagasaki in 1945, the world began to change in many ways. The initial reaction to this deadliest of all weapons was one of great fear, but this was not the only reaction. Atomic energy was the most powerful source of energy man had harnessed to date. The five years following the dropping of the atomic bombs were a confusing time when people didn't know what to think of the fact that atomic energy had been harnessed. In Life magazines December 2, 1946 article it was iterated that humankind had discovered a great tool like fire in discovering atomic energy ("Peacetime" 97). At first this new fire was theorized to be able to completely revolutionize a person's everyday lifestyle. Much of this was initial hype, but some of the initial predictions held great truth. Atomic energy could destroy the human race, and it could also be used to improve the human race.Fire was once guilty of contributing to the destruction of the human race when it burnt the forests they lived in ("Peacetime" 97). Fire was then di
Soon after the atomic bombings in Japan people realized that atomic power could destroy the world, but atomic power began changing people's lives for the better at the same time. Within five years of the dropping of the bomb, atomic power was producing electricity. Like fire humankind had been burned by atomic power, but after being burned society was finding advantageous ways of using atomic energy. Hopefully people will not need to be burned by atomic power again, and it can be looked back on as a positive turning point in the course of human history. At first the improvement atomic energy was to make on society was blown out of proportion. It was theorized that atomic energy would completely revolutionize a person's everyday lifestyle by being part of it. According to Paul Boyer in his book By the Bombs Early Light, initial theories said that cars, household appliances, heated city streets, and melting polar icecaps were some of things atomic energy would be used to accomplish (Boyer 112-115). These were soon found to be unwise uses of atomic energy. Atomic energy is so powerful
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