Nuclear War Simulation

On Wednesday, the class participated in a simulation of what the tension between nations over nuclear weapons would have been during the Cold War. Every group had a different piece of the flashlight that was necessary to build a functioning flashlight. While the tension that arose during this simulation was no where near what had built up during the war simulation in 1st semester, it became a situation of who could nuke their opponents the fastest. What I found interesting about this simulation was that all of our tensions, in my group at least, were directed toward one specific group in general. This anger was based slightly on the fact that they had cheated us out of a part by giving us one that we already had, but mostly because we still had a lot of pent up anger about Group 1 during the war simulation. I think that this is really interesting because it was similar to what was happening between the USA and Russia during the Cold War. Not only were they building off of increasing tension, but they were still angry over the past, which also contributed to the tensions that arose, creating a situation that could have potentially destroyed much of the world.