CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

Title: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Category: History | Words: 2616 | Pages: 11.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. The United States had sent a B-29 bomber plane named “Enola Gay” to fly over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and drop the first atomic bomb ever – “Little Boy” . The world had never experienced anything like it. One hundred thousand died almost instantly -- most of them were civilians. Three days later, in Nagasaki, another bomb -- “Fat Man” – was dropped. This time roughly forty thousand died. The people of …showed first 75 words of 2616 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2616 total…nothing and no one to retell the story. The events that occurred during the Cold War taught the world of the effects of a possible nuclear war and made people afraid enough to help elude nuclear war at all costs. “Any nuclear war would have inevitably caused death, disease, and suffering of pandemic proportions and without the possibility of effective medical intervention. The only hope for humanity is prevention of any form of nuclear war”

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