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The Cold War hasn’t ended. It may have only just begun

he excellent, multiple Academy Award-winning movie depicts the creation and testing of the world’s first nuclear weapon at the Alamogordo bombing range in New Mexico. The ‘Trinity Test’ was a turning point in human history. Days after the test, then-US president Harry Truman told Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States had a new weapon “of unusual destructive force”. Not much more was said between the leaders about the bomb, but that was an understatement. The invention of nuclear weapons was so profound it changed nearly everything that came after and

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