CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...
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At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...
A mother and child in Hiroshima a few months after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.Credit...Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock Supported by By ...
U.S. strategic thinking in the Cold War was dominated at various points by fears of adversarial collusion, the erosion of U.S. alliances, and the collapse of U.S. global leadership. Today, all three ...