Nuclear Weapon Proliferation

Our trip to the Intrepid

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On the 29th of January, My group members and I went to the Intrepid Museum. Our main focus was on the Growler submarine. We took photos, asked questions, and explored. We looked at many details and even got to see some artifacts. We saw a lot of jets and weapons, and even bunkers people would hide in, in the event of an attack. We learned a lot from veterans who were actually on the Growler submarine. People volunteered to be on the submarine, and about 100 people were on it. These volunteers rarely had fresh air, cramped living spaces, and no privacy. But the upside to this was the quality of their food. These soldiers would get steak and lobster for dinner and had some of the highest quality food. These soldiers were somewhat miserable, but they always looked forward to dinner. The growler submarine was the first submarine to have an ice cream maker. Many people on the Growler didn’t truly know what they were doing whenever they would fire off missiles, and young volunteers who had just got on the submarine would be the ones driving. When the Growler wanted to come up to surface level, there would be a large control panel that was dubbed “the Christmas tree”. The Christmas tree was a large control panel that made sure that everything was able to be opened. The Christmas tree consisted of red and green lights, and every single light had to be green to be open. In summary, the Intrepid museum was a very informative and insightful trip.

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Inside The Growler

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On the twenty ninth of January me and my fellow group members visited a Cold War submarine named the Growler. This nuclear submarine was in action throughout the peak years of the Cold War, 1958-19633 and was never hit or sunk. We got a close look at the missiles on the submarine and how it ran. The men that served on the ship did so by volunteering, out of a want to help their country. We were able to talk to some of these veterans and learn exactly what it was like to be a part of the crew on the USS Growler. The men had no sunlight or outside air whatsoever when inside the submarine. For their entire time they would await a call to launch missiles at targets, knowing that if they did, they could easily be found and blown to pieces. However, the men didn’t understand that their job involved ending lives. As we spoke to a Cold War Veteran, we learned that since their targets were so many miles away, they didn’t correlate launching missiles with death. It was more of just a job to them which is extremely problematic for the proliferation of nuclear weapons,

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Our trip to the Intrepid

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On the 29th of January, My group members and I went to the Intrepid Museum. Our main focus was on the Growler submarine. We took photos, asked questions, and explored. We looked at many details and even got to see some artifacts. We saw a lot of jets and weapons, and even bunkers people would hide in, in the event of an attack. We learned a lot from veterans who were actually on the Growler submarine. People volunteered to be on the submarine, and about 100 people were on it. These volunteers rarely had fresh air, cramped living spaces, and no privacy. But the upside to this was the quality of their food. These soldiers would get steak and lobster for dinner and had some of the highest quality food. These soldiers were somewhat miserable, but they always looked forward to dinner. The growler submarine was the first submarine to have an ice cream maker. Many people on the Growler didn’t truly know what they were doing whenever they would fire off missiles, and young volunteers who had just got on the submarine would be the ones driving. When the Growler wanted to come up to surface level, there would be a large control panel that was dubbed “the Christmas tree”. The Christmas tree was a large control panel that made sure that everything was able to be opened. The Christmas tree consisted of red and green lights, and every single light had to be green to be open. In summary, the Intrepid museum was a very informative and insightful trip.

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Visiting The Intrepid Submarine

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Today I went to The Intrepid Museum in NYC. We first visited the Growler Submarine which was a submarine that was operational for six years and was active in The Cold War but only as a patrolling submarine seeing as they were afraid if they used any missiles or nuclear devices that they would get found out and would be destroyed and killed. This submarine could hold 70-100 people at a time and would be out at sea for two months at a time and then would have to go back to shore and then back out to sea again. Everyone who was on that ship volunteered to go on. This was one of the first ships built to launch and carry nuclear devices. We talked to people there and one very interesting fact that we found out was that this was actually the first ever ship to have an ice cream machine on it. Afterward, we looked through the rest of the Intrepid Museum and looked at a variety of different warplanes and helicopters.

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Visiting the United Nations!

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At the UN we saw a lot of gifts from other countries that symbolize something important. My favorite gift was a gift from Russia. It was a moon rock which i found surprising, i did not think i would be seeing a rock from the moon in the UN. The moon rock symbolizes how Russia and the united states were in a race to go to the moon, which i found kinda funny that they put it in the United states. Another cool thing i learned and saw was something related to my social justice project. It was a timeline of all the different countries testing nuclear bombs in the cold war. i learned that the united states tested the most bombs out of all the countries being 1032 bombs between 1945 and 1992. 216 of those of the tested bombs were underwater and in space.

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