 On July 16, 1945 the United States conducted the first test of a nuclear weapon. Less than a month later, on August 6 & 9 the U. S. celebrated a great moment in the history of warfare; these are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons. In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians. No other nation at the time possessed nuclear weapons. Today there are nine or more nations which may or may not have nuclear weapons.
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
–Abraham Lincoln |
