SOCA02H3 Lecture : Environment
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On august 6, 1945, the united states air force dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima. The bomb killed about 200 000 japanese, almost all of them civilians. We may call the period before hiroshima the era of naive optimism. During that time, technology could do no wrong, or so it seemed to nearly all observers. Technology was widely defined as the application of scientific principles to the improvement of human life the world"s first nuclear bomb exploded at the alamagordo bombing range in new mexico. The bomb was the child of j. robert oppenheimer. Having witnessed the destructive power he helped unleash, he wanted the united states to set an example to the only other nuclear power at the time, the soviet union. He wanted both countries to halt thermo- nuclear research and refuse to develop the hydrogen bomb. But the governments of the united states and the soviet union had other plans.
