Nuclear Power and the Cold War Essay

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American History Since 1865

The objective of this study is to examine a topic in American History since 1865 to the present and to examine six or more related events and developments that span the years in that time period. For the purpose of this study The Cold War will be examined.

Event I -- Beginning of the Cold War

It is reported that while the world was starting its recovery from World War II that the first General Assembly of the United Nations met in 1946 in London and the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission was created. The purpose for the creation of this Commission was the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction and that this included the atomic bomb. (Atomic Archive, 2014, p. 1) The first American effort to set out a policy controlling atomic energy is reported as "The Report On The International Control of Atomic Energy" which is stated to have been known informally as the "Acheson-Lilenthal Report" which was published on the 16th day of March in 1946. The framework of this document held that "there should be an international 'Atomic Development Authority' which would have worldwide monopoly over the control of 'dangerous elements' of the entire spectrum of atomic energy." (Atomic Archive, 2014, p. 1) The proposal of the U.S. drew greatly on the information provided in the Acheson-Lilenthal Report.

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This document set out the establishment of "an international authority to control potentially dangerous atomic activities, license all other atomic activities, and carry out inspections." (Atomic Archive, 2014, p.1) This plan was rejected by the Soviet Union because this Baruch Plan would have given the U.S. A "decisive nuclear superiority until the details of the Plan could be worked out and would have stopped the Soviet nuclear program." (Atomic Archive, 2014, p. 1) The response of the Soviet was one that proposed nuclear disarmament on an international level. The United Nations failed to adopt either proposal and it is reported that seventeen days following the presentation of the Baruch plan to the United Nations that the United States "conducted the world's first postwar nuclear test." (Atomic Archive, 2014, p. 1) In 1946 the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 was established by the Atomic Energy Commission and this put this commission in charge of all areas related to nuclear power. The agency was comprised by five civilian members and the General Advisory Committee whose chair by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

II. Event Two -- The Hydrogen Bomb

The idea of building a hydrogen bomb gained momentum in the United States. This type of bomb is such that "deuterium and tritium….....

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