The Cold War: A Series

Few moments in the history of human conflict have been as defining as that of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945. In one instant, the entire world experienced the shocking and indisputable fact that the age of conventional warfare was gone. It was no longer a case were nations and civilizations were simply conquered and ruled. Indeed now, it was the entirely possible that the planet itself could be destroyed in the next great human conflict. Such was life in the Atomic Age.

But just as flowers and leaves do not appear overnight after the first day of spring, things in warfare and geopolitics did not change instantly after Hiroshima either. Indeed, as defining as these nuclear attacks were, it would be a some eventful years between the Second World War and the dawn of the Cold War. The following blog articles will examine some of the key policies, events and people that laid the groundwork for the amazing ideological and political struggle that became known as the Cold War. I hope you enjoy them.