50 Years of Nuclear Power

摘要

The Atomic Age announced itself tornthe world with the destructionrnof two Japanese cities in 1945.After the first bomb fell, on Hi-rnroshima in August, mankind suddenly realized that it possessed a new technology of unprecedented destructive power.By the 1950s, the rivalry between the West, more or less led by the United States, and the East, comprising the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc, had turned into the Cold War. Both sides were locked in a race to stockpile and deploy the deadlier nuclear arsenal. It became dogmatic that only mutual assured destruction could deter one side from annihilating the other.