Nuclear Warfare: a Thing of the Past

The reason why the documentary on the nuclear bomb was released on NBC in 1995 not only is because of the anniversary of the deployment of the bomb, but to remind us of the horrors of nuclear warfare. After the dropping of the nuclear bomb in 1945 came the Cold War, with the constant threat of nuclear bombing. But the Cold War ended in 1989, and with it, the threat of nuclear attack on the United States.

Back during the Cold War, children at school took part in nuclear bomb drills, where they would hide under their desks until it was safe to come out. The trauma and fear of the nuclear was always near them. Since then, my generation has really no idea what it's like to be under nuclear threat.

Clearly, then, the NBC video not only reminds us about how horrible nuclear warfare truly is, but serves as a way to prevent it from happening all over again. It does this through warning all the people who haven't had to deal it how widespread the devastation of the bombs is, and how unfair they are to the civilians who perished due to them.

The terror of the NBC video, the hundreds of school kids killed by the bomb, people who lost their best friends in the blink of an eye - this we will never experience. But through videos like the one on NBC, we can at least be grateful that we haven't had to deal with this yet in our lives.