Part one of term paper
The nuclear age opened with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. Many people believed that weapons capable of mass destruction would make war unthinkable in the future. They hoped that the world would learn to live in peace. But a race to develop ever more powerful weapons soon began. Nuclear weapons are weapo ...

Part two of term paper
... of TNT. Only two nuclear weapons have been used in warfare, each an atomic bomb dropped on Japanese targets by the United States in World War II. After the war, production of such weapons and the development of a more destructive bomb, the hydrogen bomb, caused worldwide concern. The atomic bomb was a bomb with great explosive force from the sudden release of nuclear energy through the fission, or splitting, of heavy atomic nuclei. The first atomic bomb was tested by the United States ...