Eve of Destruction

''It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler''s crowd or Stalin''s did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered'' ­- US President Harry S. Truman

Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those mi...