... chemical and biological weapons. (Pg. 40 US news & world report, July 22, 2002) Some effects of nuclear warfare is those people within approximately a six square mile area (for a One megaton blast) will indeed be close enough to "ground zero" to be killed by the gamma rays emitting from the blast itself. ... and permanently blind every living thing from cows to birds, pets and us humans whether their eyes are opened or closed. This could accur within ten miles of the blast. The nuclear blast is so strong that it just doesn't blow up then its all over, the multispectral heat blast (UV ray...

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... . The test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The bomb created a crater at the test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching ... 7.5 miles into the air (Wikipedia). President Truman was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in ... necessary. The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event...

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... was their proper boundary. The Mexican president, José Herrera, was newly in office and feared being overthrown if he complied with Polk. Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. Polk and his cabinet prepared a declaration of war. He only expected to fight a few battles on the ... that England would seize it as a strong point on the Pacific. The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. The war lasted almost 2 years. Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as...

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... world. As far as the actual land mass, Korea is a country no larger than the state of Kansas. All together, North and South Korea covers an area of 85,246 square miles, and only fifteen percent of that can be considered plains - these are mostly in the southern coastal regions. The United States could not allow its interests in East Asia, particularly ... to defend North Korea. After many deliberations the United States decided to continue on. As they said they would, China stepped into the war and drove the Southerners back sixty miles below the 38th parallel, recapturing Seoul. (Boors...

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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Four square miles of the city was reduced to rubble and more than 80,000 innocent civilians were killed on impact. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. Another 40, ... ...

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... the economy was unsuccessful. The allies adopted a tactic known as carpet bombing that primarily targeted industrial urban areas in an attempt to disrupt their economy. In Dresden for instance, 13 square miles were destroyed, illustrating the extent of destruction inflicted by the bombings. This meant that priorities were changed as focus had to be shifted away from the war economy to defence ... ...

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... March 1945 they were exposed to 1,700 tons by 300 American bomber planes and two months later the U.S unleased another 4,500 upon Japans major city- Tokyo, together destroying over 75 square miles of industrialisation and urbanisation. Japan was virtually destroyed with their civilians left homeless and industry collapsed. The Americans were aware that Japan was on the verge of collapse and they ... ...

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... the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles. Rita Hilton is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. Rita Hilton grew up near a city called Lodz. Her life before the war was happy ... ...

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... the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles. Rita Hilton is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. Rita Hilton grew up near a city called Lodz. Her life before the war was happy ... ...

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... Patton liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp and made it mandatory for German citizens to tour the camps. By the end of World War II, the Third Army conquered 81,522 square miles of territory. All these accomplishments gave Patton certain satisfactions of a leader; such as the feeling of power and prestige, respect, and status. On December 9, he suffered injuries in an automobile ... ...

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... help end the war then go for it. On August 6th 1945 at 8:09 a.m. the first of 2 Atomic Bombs was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb devastated many millions of Square miles. Killed and burned many people. Hiroaki Ichikawa was 5 years old at the time and he said that People were so badly burnt that skin was hanging right off their bones ... ...

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... the list of horrors. World War I had an even more devastating effect on France than on Great Britain. In the four years of fighting, the combatants had destroyed thousands of square miles of farmland and forests and reduced villages and cities to ruble. French casualties were enormous. Half of the males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-two were killed in ... ...

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... ,000 troops were killed, this figure was only the British, there are many more people dead if we include the Germans. For this extreme large total of dead only a few square miles were gained in this whole battle (around 8 km). Duff Cooper was hired by the Haig family to write Sir Douglas Haig's official biography. We cannot trust his opinion as the ... ...

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... they separating Russia and European section of Asia. The Kara Kum is one of central Asia's largest deserts. The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland lake, covers 143,630 square miles. Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, lies in one of the world's major oil-producing areas. Russia is the world' s largest country. Russia along with the 11 countries is ranges from 8 million sq ... ...

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... from her. She lost 13.5 percent of her territory and about 7 million people to neighbouring countries because of the Treaty of Versailles. They also particularly didn't like the loss 17800 square miles of land to the new country, Poland in the east and how Germany was separated into two parts by the Polish Corridor. The other losses included Alsace and Lorraine to ... ...

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... that Canada would feel nationally afterwards. The objective was a ridge that ran from the northwest to the southwest between Lens and Arras, France. The main height of land was four miles long, with it's highest point only 475 feet above sea level.(McKee, 132). The Germans had held it since 1914, and three French attacks in 1914 and 1915 had failed ... Atlantic for the unveiling of the Vimy memorial. It took about 10 years to build, and was made from Roman quarry on the Dalmatian coast, the base was 200 feet square, the twin pylons rose 125 feet above the Ridge. A Toronto sculpter, Walt...

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