Part I - In the beginning... there was always war...

“Over the last 5,500 years… about 15,000 wars have taken place on our planet… more than 3.5 billion people have been killed in these wars… there have only been 292 peaceful years in the entire history of mankind.” Pravda, Russian State Newspaper, Weapons of the Future - Weather, Plasma and Money, 26 September 2003

     Estimates of deaths from the two Atomic Bombs range from 115,000 to 340,000. If the latter is correct -- and it is closer to the historical consensus -- the two nuclear devices used by the United States in August 1945, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killed almost as many Japanese as all the Americans killed in all the battles of World War II. It is often thought that these bombs won World War II; that is not true. The Japanese Empire was rapidly spinning out 0f control and basically awaiting collapse. What is true is that these two weapons ended World War II and may have actually saved lives.

Part I - In the beginning... there was always war...