The End
Finally, this brings us to the modern era, where weapons go beyond even the extent of our wildest imagination. From biological warfare, to nuclear bombs, modern weapons never cease to astonish with their awesome power. The best, and most notable example of modern technology is the nuclear bomb. On August 6, 1945 the United states deployed world's first nuclear bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan. George Caron, the tail gunner on the plane that dropped the bomb, described the scene "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside... It looked like lava or molasses but covering a whole city..." This destructive power, unimaginable to most of us, is only the beginning of a new age in weapons. Even today, our hydrogen bombs have over 100 times the power of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Julius Robert Oppenheimer described what is becoming of modern weaponology perfectly. "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds."