As we advance in our everyday life technology the government advances in its warfare technology also. Warfare tactics changed and advanced vastly during the world wars. The damage and the effect of weapons increased as the technology increased causing these two wars to very high death counts and leave my wounded for life.
In World War 1 the atomic bomb was introduced as the new form of warfare weaponry. The atomic bomb could produce heat millions of degrees high, and visible ultraviolet and inferred rays. Everyone and everything exposed to their blast is affected. When the bomb was dropped only one mile away from ground zero, the blast cracked walls over twelve inches thick. The shockwave after the bomb was felt over a mile away. Heat incinerated everything within a 500-yard radius of the hypocenter.
One of these bombs was dropped on a city in Japan called Hiroshima. The immediate effects on Hiros
While technology can be good and used for good reasons it was not within these World Wars. While technology advanced the number of people left to see it happen decreased immensely. Hopefully people within our World can learn from the mistake of this type of warfare and leave the advancement of technology to helping people instead of destroying them.
blast, those who survived it had no clothes, hair, or skin because they had
New techniques had to be used in World War 2 because of this updated technology. Techniques such as "mouse holing" and "lightning warfare" were some of the new techniques used. Mouse holing is when the soldiers would blow a hole in the wall of a building and move through the building capturing the nazi soldiers instead of going out on the open street and getting picked of by snipers. Lightning warfare was a technique used by the Germans. It was war tactic were planes were first sent in to a designated area an
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