Call For Collective Nuke Disarmament

The bombardment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not merely aim to bring the raging World War II to an abrupt end but it also bore a hidden strategy to convince the world that a US-dominated world order was in the offing. The destruction worked well, for the time being. What followed was a race in developing similar technology, as top state priorities. By the 1960s, the Cold War between the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union had fueled an arms race, raising anxieties about the spread of nuclear weapons.