The nuclear aged has ushered in wondrous scientific and technological advances. But the unleashing of atomic energy over fifty-five years ago has also issued in an age of unimaginable nuclear destruction. Nuclear weapons have caused the world to teeter its focus between feeling and non-feeling. Society has become uncertain of what to do or feel when it comes to nuclear weapons, leading to a generalised psychic numbing. According to the Robert Jay Liften, this numbing feeling can be classified into three categories: the numbing of massive death, the numbing of profession and the numbing of everyday life. The psychological impact of the nuclear weapons has desensitised society forever.

Humankind has suffered from the devastation and misery of human evil. Throughout history, conquering armies, incessant warfare and violent tragedies have all left a mass of death in their wake. However, none of these horrific wars can be compared to the destruction of nuclear weapons. The aftermath of destruction involves the first form of numbing, massive death immersion. To date the strongest example of massive death immersion would be Japan during World War II and the f

The majority of people want a safer future and the only way logically for military obsessed leaders is by stockpiling nuclear weapons. However, they do no seem to realise the seriousness of the nuclear weapons. Our culture all too readily calls those who scream about the dangers or nuclear weapons "crazy", and those who perpetuate the gigantic stockpiles of nuclear weapons " rational." (7) nuclear weapons "rational". Our entire society has become numb to the nuclear weapons issue. People have become so unemotional to the serious implication of destruction that could occur any day. Americans have become numb to what atomic power could actually do if it became part of the national consciousness. People went on with their daily lives yet between drop drills and fallout shelters a sense of normalcy grew and adapted to this life. The relation began to lull people into a kind of numbness about the entire issue. Modern culture went from being obsessed to unemotional in the last 50 years. In every school every child from 5 to 18 went through the famous American bomb drills. The children were to that to save themselves they were to put there head under a deck or even to put a piece of paper over your head so that the fallout wouldn't fall on them. Clips were often shown on cartoon movies with cheery happy music accompanying it. They portrayed nuclear war as a happy non-serious issue. This mostly confused the children of America, as they knew that nuclear weapons were a much more crucial issue then the government would have liked to admit. A loss of faith in authority and government is the inevitable legacy of those bomb drills. Everyday numbing prevents feeling to occur in some part of the brain.

intense feeling in other parts. (9) A key example would be the numbing of a surgeon before operating on a patient. They must be focused and cannot afford to feel the consequences of failure. The doctor must differently set their mind in order to complete a successful operation. They cannot feel the same anxiety of fear that the patient of their family feels. The separation of feelings works out for the advantage of both parties. Other forms of numbing include musician or painters who numb out their other influences so that they will only stick to their own visions. Baseball, basketball, football or any other sports players numb themselves from the tension of the crowd and the players focus on the game, once again showing the benefits of professional numbing. Professional numbing took control of the scientist in the Manhattan project, especially Eugene Rabinowitch. The team devoted their time to finishing the goal of ending the war. Their job turned into a game to see if it would actually work or it they could do it. The impact of the bomb never crossed their minds until after the bomb completion. Rabinowitch was so devastated with that he had helped to create that he once had a horrific dream where "visions of all the sky scrapers exploding, being destroyed first in Chicago and then in all of the great cities of the world." (10). The group of scientists had become so cantered on stopping the war that they never fully comprehended the evil monster that they had unleashed until it was too late. "The problems that we have created as

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