<span> The devastating bombing created a permanent stigma and fear of these powerful weapons that changed how we viewed warfare forever. The cold war stayed cold because all parties on all sides knew that if a war took place where the nuclear option was executed by both sides, life on earth would come to an end. Many can only hope that the warning those nightmare images from Hiroshima continue to scare the world away from ever using these horrible weapons again.</span>
Plutonium was used for nuclear development that Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin agreed to destroy stores of in June 2000