Fat Man and Little Boy – these innocuous sobriquets, were given, in a vicious irony, to two specimens of the most detrimental weapons ever developed by human beings. The world shook on August 6 and 9, 1945, when the 2 atomic bombs were dropped by B-26s, incinerating Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and bringing Imperial Japan to its knees in unconditional surrender. As a testament to its destructive power, a few minutes of nuclear destruction had hastened the end of probably the most brutal war in history. The war had been won, but at a horrible cost. By some estimates, 60 million people – 3 percent of the world’s population in 1940 – had perished in World War II (WW2).
What surfaced from the debris pile was a New World Order, led by a new, undisputed power: the United States of America. Seven decades after liberal democracy triumphed over facism and subsequently, Communism, that World Order has precariously held the peace. Conflicts haven’t discontinued, but a global war with the Great Powers as belligerents definitely has not occurred.
Back to the Future? - Fusion Laced Illusions
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