1. Nuclear Weapons - Threat to Humanity
... Alamogordo, New Mexico, "The Gadget," a nuclear weapon with an explosive force equal to that of around twenty kilotons of TNT, was detonated, beginning the "Atomic Age." J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, a joint effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada which led the nuclear research ... Winston Churchill, then Prime Minister of the UK, stating, "It would...be wrong and imprudent to entrust the secret knowledge or experience of the atomic bomb...to the [United Nations] while it is still in its infancy" (Churchill). While the UN certainly was an i...
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