Thursday, March 10, 2016
Nuclear BOMB simulation!
On Wednesday at the end of class, Mr. Stewart told us we would be doing a simulation. Since my group is usually the "shady", and fun seeking group we were ecstatic to find out we had a simulation waiting for us. Essentially the simulation was trying to simulate how difficult it was to make a Nuclear Bomb. The way Mr. Stewart simulates this is by first he gave every group, components to a flashlight. Our group got the batteries, others got the lightbulb, etc. We had to trade components or make deals of some sorts to try and gain all the components of our flashlight or the "bomb". We had to announce when we were going to test our bomb to the whole class, so that others could see if our "bomb" worked. The twist is, some of the components that were given, didn't actually work. So I think this was to simulate not everyone got it right on their first try, and maybe they got some of the pieces wrong; Or they did actually just have bad parts. Of course our group got all the components first, using our shady ways... but not all of our components worked to fulfill it's purpose. For being shady to other groups those who finally built their "Nuclear Bomb" nuked us immediately.
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I agree that the purpose of the broken parts were to simulate mistakes in developing an atomic bomb. However I also think that another part of the simulation was to experience the intensity of racing the enemy to make the bomb and hoping that you were farther ahead. Another part of the simulation, that may or may not have been intended, was experiencing the diplomatic experience between enemies. During the simulation, your group cheated the other groups by only giving one battery for a part, even though the correct equivalent to a part would be two batteries. It was because of this that, like in most of our classes simulation, "group 1" became the common enemy and everyone else teamed up against them and beat them.
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ReplyDeleteI agree and think that the simulation really showed us the pressure many countries felt, especially the USSR, about building a nuclear weapon. Also I don't think we were being shady by giving everyone one battery we were just making smart business decisions.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I agree with what you think the purpose of the simulation was-- to show that everyone was trying to make their bombs at the same tiem but not every had the resources or were able to. However, I disagree that your group is the fun seeking group because that group in the far left corner seems pretty fun in my opinion.
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