History - The Beginnings

ith the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still fresh, the world soon tried to find a diplomatic mechanism to prevent any future use or acquisition of nuclear weapons. However, the Cold War postures of the United States and the Soviet Union doomed these early efforts.

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