"If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once in the sky, That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become death, The shatterer of worlds." -Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita (Life World War II p. 412). On August 6, 1945, the world discovered and watched in horror the effect of a nuclear bomb. Looking back at history the war as a minor event compared to the aftershock of the nuclear explosion. The United States had dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and dragged a shocked world into the nuclear age. Rising numbers of casualties in battles had given the United States the motivation to find an alternate and alternative method to bring the war in the Pacific to an end. The atomic bomb provided the "silver bullet" that could bring down what was left...