![]() A war in which the use of nuclear weapons a thousand times stronger than the two atomic bombs dropped in WWII would reduce the world to rubble. A “war at the speed of light”, as Michael Crichton described it in his novel Congo. And secondly, that if a global conflict did break out, nuclear arms would make it the shortest and most destructive in history. Firstly, that it’s very unlikely we’ll see a Third World War. Since then, two things have become clear. One in which countries worldwide wanted to have a nuclear threat in their arsenal. When the US B-29 bomber the Enola Gay used the first nuclear weapon on 6 August 1945, dropping the ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, humanity entered a new era.
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