Weapons In Cat's Cradle

In this day in age, it seems as if a new weapon is created everyday. To think that people don't understand what they do or how much they can destroy is almost unbelievable. We create these massive weapons, with deadly intentions but don’t realize what we are doing with them. And just like that, at a click of a button millions of precious lives can be lost. We are so in the moment that we forget that it can’t be taken back either. It’s happened in our history and is still happening in our world today. It occurred in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle where he illustrates a realistic outcome of an extremely detrimental weapon being used on the world.

The place we call earth was changed forever on August 6, 1945 when, for the first time in history, we viewed the power of the atomic bomb. It all started when a US aircraft named the “Enola Gay” flew off from a small island in the Pacific Ocean with a clear path to Japan. The end result was the atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy being dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Those in the aircraft watched as the city, home for 350,000 people, disappeared into thin air. The bomb caused

In the novel the main character John Hears about a substance called Ice-9, created by Felix Hoenikker and that substance is now secretly in the possession of his children. “Ice-nine is an alternative structure of water that is solid at room temperature. When a crystal of ice-nine contacts liquid water, it becomes a seed crystal that makes the molecules of liquid water arrange themselves into the solid form, ice-nine. Felix Hoenikker's reason to create this substance was to aid in the military's plight of wading through mud and swamp areas while fighting. That is, if ice-nine could reduce the wetness of the areas to a solid form, soldiers could easily maneuver across without becoming entrapped or