Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century.
The history and politics.
This Very Short Introduction reveals why.
But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear.`` For all the effort to reduce Nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the bomb is here to stay.
As Bill Clinton\'s first secretary of defense, Les Aspin, aptly put it, ``The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more.
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century