Technology Changed Warfare in the 21st Century

During the First World War there was a group of physical chemists that worked on making weapons out of poisonous gasses. This was used in World War One and other modern time conflicts and changes how warfare is fought today. Nuclear and chemical weapons completely altered 20th century warfare. World War Two started in September 1939 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland. The United States enter the war because the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941. As a result the allied and axis powers fought against each other till the USA dropped the two nuclear bombs on Japanese. This started a new type of weapon that would forever put fear in times of war.

The way World War One was fought has changed the way people look at warfare today. A scientist named Robert S. Mulliken started the start of research on pounises gas and how they affect the human body. He won the Nobel Prize in 1966 for his discovery about molecular orbital theory. “This explains how atoms stick together to make molecules of particular substances. The theory caused huge advances in the field of applied chemistry and led to such developments as the creation of polymers, witch comprise vinyl, synthetic rubbers, and other industrial materials.(Robert S. Mulliken)” Robert S. Mulliken was born on June 7, 1896 in Massachusetts, he would later on choose to go to college at MIT and graduated in 1971. Shortly after he graduated he got a job with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Mines, Robert was a junior chemical engineer (Robert S. Mulliken). His main goal there was to research and study dangerous gases at American University in the capital (Robert S. Mulliken). In World War One Robert help in the Chemical Warfare division of the United State Army. Later i...

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...ould be used in the Manhattan project.

The Manhattan Project was the projects that researched and build the first nuclear weapons. The main experiments were conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were built (Manhattan Project ABC-CLIO). The Manhattan Project use the Mathematical formula created by the scientist Robert S. Mulliken. The Manhattan project was one of the largest and most expensive military lead projects in the United States.

After all the violence was that where fought using these weapons the world has learned something about weapons of mass destruction of life. The chemical weapons used in the first world war where devastating to the crops, land, and people of Europe and Germany. The weapons used in the seconded world war have forever changed the way people think about bombs and nuclear power.