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Pros And Cons Regarding The Use Of Nuclear Weapons In War

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The onset of World War II advanced nuclear research by decades. In 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman showed that matter could be transformed into energy by firing neutrons at uranium. They found that a chain reaction was possible, in which the splitting or fission of one uranium atom would release neutrons that would turn cause other atoms to break up. Although the atom bomb ended one war, it almost immediately started another one. There are various pros and cons regarding the using of nuclear weapons in war. There are several reasons why the nuclear weapons should have been used. The first being that the blast from a plutonium bomb would be equivalent to twenty thousand tons of dynamite. On August 6 and 9, 1945, two bombs were dropped on
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