Birthday of the Bomb
Today is the birthday of the gadget called Atomic Bomb.
Sixty years ago at the pre – dawn hour at Trinity Site in the desert of New Mexico, a flash of light changed the face of the world forever. The United States test fired its new atomic weapon, and humankind entered a new era. The Nuclear Bomb was born and with it, man suddenly got a tool for his own annihilation, in his own hands.
Since then, humanity has been living under a perpetual threat of destruction. Till this very moment, our lives have been underscored by the nuclear threat. Such he was the consequence of that first firing of the nuclear device that till this day, nations have remained hostage to the nuclear fever.
It led the world to the Cold War arms race and fears of nuclear extinction. Nuclear weapons are still moulding the conduct of business at both the national and international stages. South Asia seeks its illusive security in them; the Americans ad Europeans remain wary of the Axis of Evil constituents, Iran and North Korea, acquiring these weapons.
Nuclear energy seems to be the most terrible thing ever to be discovered by the human mind. However, given proper safeguards, this same discovery can be turned into the greatest from the most terrible. Leaders of the world and the people in control should work upon using it in favour of mankind, rather than against it.
