Since the Second World War , mankind has reached astronomical heights in all genres of techonology, especially Warfare related, perhaps mankind has gone too far.
The ‘Arms Race’ during the Cold War rose war techonlogy ski high, alot to do with nuclear materials and weapons of mass destruction.
The Cold War introduced the smallest things that we wouldn’t know about, like the microwave, ect.
The cold war generation grew up worrying about the bomb, the Russians and World War III. Today`s nuclear nightmares are more varied, but no less scary. The list of nuclear-armed states is lengthening alarmingly, and each new entry increases the chances that some nasty regional war could turn nuclear. Most of the rest belong to U.S. allies and friends – Britain, France and Israel. The combined arsenals of Pakistan and India, with whom the United States enjoys reasonable relations, represent a small fraction of 1 percent. That leaves China, hardly an enemy, whose 1 percent of the world total includes 20 long-range missiles that could hit the United States (compared to 6,000-plus U.S. nuclear weapons that could reach China today). Then there is North Korea, which maybe has a couple of weapons but no missiles or planes capable of dropping them on U.S. targets.
Nuclear terrorism has emerged as a terrifying new threat.
The United States and Russia currently possess 96 percent of the world’s total inventory of 30,000 nuclear weapons, its not long before each country will be nuclear armed.
The Cold War was the impetus for such creations as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), lunar landers and space stations – and eventually gave birth to important inventions like the computer. But where would we be today in terms of technology without the push from the Cold War?, if we didn’t expirience the Cold War, where would the world stand today?
Not only have bombs, men and Tanks been rapidly expanding in technilogical warfare, but aircraft has reached such heights that its almost impossible to keep up to date with something after bringing out different models.
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http://www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/2005/20050428_USNW_Drell-Goodby.asp