Hiroshima

Was the invention of the atomic bomb the creation of just another weapon, or the creation of a doomsday device? For over fifty years, the controversy over whether or not it was necessary to drop the atomic bomb to conclude World War II has continued to question America and the rest of the world. In war, there is no sanction on how big and bad a weapon can be. Weapons are made to kill. And …

…coast of the United States. U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness. This scare brought about new regulations in addition to old ones about using/banning atomic bombs. "As American-Soviet relations deteriorated, Hiroshima and Nagasaki rose as symbols of a new American barbarism, and as explanations for the origins of the cold war" (Sherwin 238). Yet still today, the black market can provide willing terrorists with the means to destroy the world.