Manhattan Project (1 Viewer)

[geniass]

Help! We are trying to do the dot point on the Manhatten Project, "Assess the significance of the Manhattan Project to society." The only information that I can find doesn't say anything about the way its affected society, it only talks about the people involved and the history, basically everything I don't need.
HELP!!!!!!

 

[xiao1985]

effect on society?? i remember puttin something like:

it ends the war quicker (good social impact)
it kills innocent civilians (bad short term social impact)
while it also unveils a wmd (bad long social impact)
the radiation caused long term mutation/ cancer of the affected areas (bad long term social impact)

cuz u can elaborate on this and say oh how the war is like devastatin bla bla... =p blehz

 

[kimmeh]

geniass, which module is this?

 

[jims]

prob quanta to quarks...
also got the cold war and public perception on the ethics of unabated scientific progress (ppl these days are generally more cynical).

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

look at the standard package for either the 2001(i think) HSC, there was like a 7 marker in tthe Q2Q section that was pretty good(it was the only sample)

in short:
The Good: ends war quickly, new source of power, development into nuclear sciences
THe Bad: developments of WoM(cold war and weapon races), possiblilty of Nuclear War, Devastation @ hiroshima & Nagasaki, pollution(thermal pollution of water sources as well as radioactive nuclear wastes,), radiation's harmful effects on living things

 

[tooheyz]

the bad: the project ensures that humans had the power to destroy itself - and something bout the arms race (??)

i've forgotten everything

edit: i just realised that that doesnt make sense
(looks for my q2q notes...)

 

[Xayma]

You could also say something about the lives of soldies saved (it was estimated that it would have taken 1 000 000lives to invade Japan succesfully).

 

[geniass]

hey tooheyz...where can i find ur q2q notes?

 

[freaking_out]

for this dot point- go look at the sucess one book...its got this answer to a similiar question, and it covers all the stuff that ur looking for.

 

[lil_star]

yeah just memorise stuff from Success One...or get last yrs (2003) catholic paper with answers...the answers have a good one..i guess trial papers/answers are a good source of finding answers to dotpoints with hard to find answers!

 

[Calculon]

I had an english presentation i did on thios last year, with reference to horrors of war, sorry but i deleted it