How War Has Shaped Our Lives

A second sun rises in the desert of Nevada: the Redwing Apache nuclear test in July 1956. (Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Hidden around the world are weapons that can end civilization.

These weapons are in deep sea submarines, remote airbases, desert silos and even driven around vast forests to prevent potential enemies from knowing their whereabouts.

A single ICBM — “inter-continental ballistic missile”— can rain down several nuclear warheads whose destructive power dwarfs that of the bomb that annihilated…