...was such a surprising attack. On the central powers side it was just another day in July. We started off by doing our morning routines and going through our day when all of a sudden we all heard shells in the distance. Then hundreds of thousands of shells (the official count was about 1.4 million) rained down on our side of the line they were landing everywhere, one landed next to me! But it didn’t go off, most of the shells didn’t go off and we lost some good men. But the allied men pushed forward it wasn’t any time to grieve yet. The allied pushed forward mercilessly but we stood strong and were pushed back a few miles until the allied realized they lost too many men. The central powers lost the battle but both sides suffered major causualties. The Battle of Somme 1st July – 18th November 1916 When I was at the Battle of Somme it was such a surprising attack. On the central powers side it was just another day in July. We started off by doing our morning routines and going through our day when all of a sudden we all heard shells in the distance. Then hundreds of thousands of shells (the official count was about 1.4 million) rained down on our side of the line they were landing everywhere, one landed next to me! But it didn’t go off, most of the shells didn’t go off and we lost some good men. But the allied men pushed forward it...
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...the prompt radiation. Previous bombs had focused 50% of its energy towards the blast, 35% towards thermal radiation (heat), 10% going to residual radiation (Bomb Fallout), and the remaining 5% towards prompt radiation, in which were mainly designed to obliterate civilizations (Strauss, S6). With the technological outbreak right after World War II nuclear physicists idealized to increase that prompt radiation to 80%. If met it “would cover an area of about 0.8 square miles. [And] [a]nyone in this kill zone would die in a particularly gruesome manner, as [the] neutrons collided with protons inside living tissue” (Strauss, S6). In doing so, the concept of concluding war would be fully re-created, as it stood as an option to prevent more causualties that that of a full fledge war. Throughout this period of development, arguments were made that this bomb was “specifically designed to kill people through the release of neutrons rather than to destroy military installations through heat and blast”(Strauss, S6). Regardless of such accusations, the nuclear bomb served as the foundation of multiple futuristic bombs, including the profound neutron bomb. With the implementation of these immense bombs, the concept of war termination has been altered in a more positive way, due to fewer casualties, and a innovation of...
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