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First Week Goals: |
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Understand what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2. Learn how we have arrived at our present situation. 3. Understand the physical effects of nuclear weapons. 4. Try to comprehend what nuclear war would mean. 5. Begin our study of physics: The four forces of nature, concepts of energy, conservation laws, atomic and nuclear physics. |
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| So read: | SR:
(assigned in class) Shohno: Chs: 1-4 Warf: Chs: 1, 2, 10-II, 10-III Barefoot Gen: Vol. 1, on library reserve |
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| AV materials: | Hiroshima
Survivors Recollect Hiroshima World at War Prophecy Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes Pika Don, and Guide to Armageddon |
| Second Week Goals: | 1.
Learn
the effects of nuclear technology and nuclear weapons on people and on
the environment. 2. Basics of nuclear bomb design, fission and fusion. 3. Understand how nuclear weapons can be delivered. 4. Learn how a nuclear reactor works and understand what happened at Chernobyl. |
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| So read: | Shohno:
Chs: 5, 6, 7 Warf: Chs: 3, 5, 9 SR: finish; finish Physics Notes |
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| AV materials: | Powers of Ten
Black Rain A Mother's Prayer Half Life, and Radio Bikini Conservation Laws in Zero-g The Day After Trinity MacArthur's Children Mission of Mercy Barefoot Gen |
| Third Week Goals: | 1.
Understand
peaceful applications of nuclear physics. 2. Work on possible solutions to the war problem. 3. Learn about the costs of World Militarism. 4. Find solution to the war problem. How will war end? 5. Consider your topic summaries. 6. Successfully complete the final exam. |
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| So read: | Warf: Chs: 4(1-25), 11, 12 Shohno: Chs: 8, 9 |
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| AV materials: | Barefoot Gen Life in the Third World? A Visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Additional
appropriate "Japanese" film, video, and reading is also part of this course.
(All in three weeks.)