Atomic Bomb
Upon seeing the successful test for the A-bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the key minds behind the development of the Atomic bomb, recalled , the line from the Bhagavad Gita, “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” And so he had. Though easily the least used weapon on this list, it was without a doubt the weapon that shaped all of post WWII politics in the 20th century. Even before the bomb, WWII had made it clear that war was no longer something that happened to soldiers on a battlefield…it was something that happened to everyone. And that was never clearer than when two Japanese cities were nearly totally destroyed, simply by dropping a hunk of metal from the sky.
