Concept
Mutual assured destruction
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Nuclear weapons in popular culture
Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age". The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the "atomic age", and the bleak pictures of the bombed-out cities released shortly after the end of World War II became symbols of the power and destruction of the new weapons (it is worth noting that the first pictures released were only from distances, and did not contain any human bodies—such pictures would only be released in later years).
Nuclear weapons debate
Nuclear ethics The nuclear weapons debate refers to the controversies surrounding the threat, use and stockpiling of nuclear weapons. Even before the first nuclear weapons had been developed, scientists involved with the Manhattan Project were divided over the use of the weapon. The only time nuclear weapons have been used in warfare was during the final stages of World War II when USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945.
Course aux armements
Une course aux armements a lieu lorsque plusieurs États rivalisent entre eux pour créer les forces armées les plus puissantes et les armements les plus performants. Par extension, le terme de « course aux armements » désigne toute circonstance où deux groupes (deux espèces vivantes, deux systèmes, etc.) opposés se dotent successivement de mesures et de contre-mesures, l'un ripostant à l'autre.