It was 65 years ago — in 1945 — when the world truly entered the age of nuclear weapons. U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 won World War II and thankfully brought peace!
But our world today is endangered by the possession of nuclear weapons by vicious Communist North Korea — and possibly Iran.
A bit of history first, though.
In 1939, Adolf Hitler devastated Poland by air power and conventional weapons. Then Hitler overcame France and much of the rest of Europe by using swarms of Nazi bombers — and conventional bombs.
On Dec. 7, 1941 — “a date which will live in infamy,” U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared — the United States was thrust into World War II when Japan attacked the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the Philippines.