| > The nuclear bomb was also supposed to change everything. But in the end nothing changed, we just got more of the same. It is hard for me to imagine a statement more out of touch with history than this. All geopolitical history from WWII forward is profoundly affected by the development of the bomb. I don't even know where to begin to argue against this. Off the top of my head: 1. What would have happened between Japan and the US in WWII without Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 2. Would the USSR have fallen without the financial drain of the nuclear arms race? 3. Would Isreal still exist if it didn't have nuclear weapons? 4. If neither the US nor Russia had nuclear weapons, how many proxy wars would have been avoided in favor of direct conflict? The whole trajectory of history would be different if we'd never split the atom. |