The end of that war saw the world divided into three large powerunits or superstates.
What was the disposition of the nations at the end of the Great Nuclear War? That wars should continue to be fought, and on a global scale, was taken for granted. Wars henceforth would be waged with conventional weapons of the kind developed during the Second World War. The devastation was so terrible that the ruling elites of the world came to realize that nuclear warfare, in destroying organized society, destroyed their own capacity for maintaining power.īy common consent the nuclear age was brought to an end. What was the outcome of the Great Nuclear War of the 1950s?Ĭountless atomic bombs were dropped on the industrial centres of western Europe, the Americas and the Soviet Empire. So that what had been used to end one war was now employed to start another. The communist powers faced the capitalist powers, and both sides had unlimited nuclear weapons. But with the end of the conflict between the fascist States and the free world (which was not all free, because a great part of it was totalitarian), the stage was cleared for the enactment of the basic encounter of the century. With the first use of atomic bombs, developed with urgency to finish speedily a war that had gone on too long. In 1945, when, for many people, it seemed to have ended.
When did the twentieth-century nightmare begin?
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