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The nuclear age begins. From Hiroshima to the Soviet atomic test in 1949, the world enters an era of potential annihilation. Whittle examines how nuclear weapons transformed the nature of warfare and international relations permanently.
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For ordinary citizens during the Cold War, nuclear annihilation was beyond personal control. The Stoic response — focus on what you can control — became an unconscious survival strategy for an entire generation.
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Nuclear weapons made total war irrational and peace unstable
Before nuclear weapons, great powers could fight and recover. After nuclear weapons, great-power war meant mutual annihilation. This paradoxically created both unprecedented peace between superpowers and unprecedented anxiety.