What's the historical significance of the nuclear bomb in terms of major cultural alterations in the west? Did it perhaps increase tension among individuals and therefore smoking making the habit of asking for a light more prevalent. Or perhaps increased the occurences of mutated insects crawling into the mouths of young Americans?
>>3199904
The biggest change was the change in the attitude towards war.
All wars prior to the atom bomb were absolute wars fought to the fullest of our nation's ability with liberty the stakes. After the atom bomb, all of our wars have basically been elaborate LARPing events where we pretended to fight but didn't really fight. For the first time in human history, a culture fought wars in which it voluntarily held back its best weapons, preferring to send its people to die rather than drop the bombs that could end a war on day one.
This lead to the first majority supported anti-war movement, the end of the draft, and the general contempt for or disinterest in military service that persists to this day.
>>3199919
Calm down, dude
>>3199925
>the general contempt for or disinterest in military service that persists to this day
If you're an American, this is absolutely not true. even most Democrats will try to play up their respect for our soldiers, "thank you for your service", and so on.
>>3199925
>absolute wars fought to the fullest of our nation's ability with liberty the stakes
Lol what nonsense. The US military has always been a bunch of gangsters serving Wall St and the robber-baron elite.
>>3199904
Proved mankind's mastery over the natural world and ascendancy.