Nuclear+Proliferation


 * Essential Questions: **


 * **Who determines who gets to have WMD’s and who doesn't get to have them?**
 * **Nuclear deterrents: Do the ends justify the means?**
 * **Is it possible to un-invent any object deemed too dangerous to exist?**
 * **Is the UN too weak? Too powerful?**
 * **What options are available to non-aligned countries to defend themselves from superpowers? **


 * __Opener:__ **
 * **List 10 words that you would use to describe the  impact of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction **
 * 1) death
 * 2) arms race
 * 3) apocalyptic
 * 4) tragedy
 * 5) unnecessary
 * 6) scientific
 * 7) desperate (in terms of the situations in which they are used)
 * 8) questionable
 * 9) catastrophic
 * 10) decrepit (what a place would look like after being hit by a nuclear weapon)
 * 11) trauma
 * 12) chaos
 * 13) terrorized
 * 14) radiation
 * 15) Oppenheimer/Manhattan Project


 * **What do you think the quote "It is 5 minutes to Midnight  means in reference to nuclear weapons **

I think it means that it is 5 minutes before a nuclear weapon drops. (or before the world comes close to nuclear disaster)

[|Questions on Nuclear Proliferation Article]

[|Notes on Choices Video Clips]


 * NUKEMAP Bombing Results:**

If Boston was hit with a nuclear bomb with the power of the "Fat Man" bomb that was unleashed on Nagasaki, and if it detonated on the ground, it would most strongly affect the region within a 3-4 kilometer radius around the center of Boston, which means that it did not yet hit the main part of Logan Airport. However, if the wind were blowing northward, the fallout from the bomb (black rain) would reach Malden, and would in fact extend all the way into New Hampshire. There would be 117,800 deaths and 103,480 more injuries.