Throughout the ages—and long before the invention and development of nuclear weapons—there had been those who prophesied that the world would end because of man’s wickedness.
Such prophesies were always believed, no matter how many times they had been proved wrong in the past. There was a wish for, as well as a fear of, punishment. Once nuclear weapons were invented, the prophecies gained plausibility, although now they were couched in lay terms rather than religious ones.
Evidence, the more convincing because governments tried to suppress it, proved that the world could be ended at the touch of a button.
Chapter One - The History of Nuclear War in Fiction
Chapter Two - The Causes of Nuclear War
Chapter Three - The Short-Term Effects of Nuclear War
Chapter Four - The Long-Term Effects of Nuclear War
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Such prophesies were always believed, no matter how many times they had been proved wrong in the past. There was a wish for, as well as a fear of, punishment. Once nuclear weapons were invented, the prophecies gained plausibility, although now they were couched in lay terms rather than religious ones.
Evidence, the more convincing because governments tried to suppress it, proved that the world could be ended at the touch of a button.
Chapter One - The History of Nuclear War in Fiction
Chapter Two - The Causes of Nuclear War
Chapter Three - The Short-Term Effects of Nuclear War
Chapter Four - The Long-Term Effects of Nuclear War
Chapter Five - Avoiding Nuclear War
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/11/16/nuclear-holocausts-atomic-war-in-fiction-3/
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