Don't worry we will protect you. Sleep tight now my baby.
The wind may rise now but listen to it die down.
I will sing you a lullaby, and rock you to sleep.
The world saw the birth of the nuclear age with the detonation
of an atomic device over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The Allies
sought the unconditional surrender of Japan in the earliest
time possible and save American lives by avoiding a land
invasion of Japanese islands. The bomb ended the Pacific war
with the Japanese surrendering in 1945.
Since then US possession of the technology to make nuclear
weapons began a world nuclear arms race with most of
the victors of the war quickly joining. They refined the bomb.
They are soon measuring their new weapons in terms of how
many Hiroshimas their new versions could destroy with only
one of their bombs. Major powers stockpiled these bombs
in their vaults, bomb bunkers and equip their bombs rockets so
they can hit targets across the globe. The United States and the
Soviet Union made and stored these bombs in numbers sufficient
to destroy the whole world 15 times over.
These new reality in world security brought out a new concept
in world politics and international relations and it is called mutual
assured destruction MAD. MAD poses that if two opposing sides
knew neither one can achieve meaningful victory in a military
nuclear exchange of bombs, then no side would be a fool enough
to start one.
This is still the same thinking that some advocate if the americans
ever have to use a nuclear weapon again.
The wind may rise now but listen to it die down.
I will sing you a lullaby, and rock you to sleep.
The world saw the birth of the nuclear age with the detonation
of an atomic device over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The Allies
sought the unconditional surrender of Japan in the earliest
time possible and save American lives by avoiding a land
invasion of Japanese islands. The bomb ended the Pacific war
with the Japanese surrendering in 1945.
Since then US possession of the technology to make nuclear
weapons began a world nuclear arms race with most of
the victors of the war quickly joining. They refined the bomb.
They are soon measuring their new weapons in terms of how
many Hiroshimas their new versions could destroy with only
one of their bombs. Major powers stockpiled these bombs
in their vaults, bomb bunkers and equip their bombs rockets so
they can hit targets across the globe. The United States and the
Soviet Union made and stored these bombs in numbers sufficient
to destroy the whole world 15 times over.
These new reality in world security brought out a new concept
in world politics and international relations and it is called mutual
assured destruction MAD. MAD poses that if two opposing sides
knew neither one can achieve meaningful victory in a military
nuclear exchange of bombs, then no side would be a fool enough
to start one.
This is still the same thinking that some advocate if the americans
ever have to use a nuclear weapon again.
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