The Atomic Age

Hiroshima and Trinity make nuclear energy the defining fact of geopolitics.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1945 – present

Core Principles & Analysis

• The Trinity test and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki opened the age in 1945.
• Nuclear weapons anchored Cold War deterrence between superpowers.
• Civilian nuclear power spread from the 1950s onward.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Atomic Age