One of the greatest social impacts of the atomic bomb was that it created fear in people of nuclear explosion and war. Before the first atomic bomb was dropped, a typical war meant people feared casualties, physical suffering, and the loss of loved ones. With the new age of the atomic bomb, every future war has the potential to become a nuclear war, and nuclear war breeds a new type of fear. This new fear is the fear of the end of the world and of humanity. When there is a weapon that can level an entire city and kill 66,000 people while injuring 69,000 (atomicarhive.com) with long-term health effects, people will obviously be afraid. . People fear that there is no future for humanity. If a nuclear war were to occur, half of a country, or even an entire country, could easily be destroyed to the point of becoming uninhabitable due to radiation. Thanks to a Stanford University psychological study of young survivors of World War II, it was found that almost half of the subjects surveyed believe that a nuclear war would result in the complete annihilation of humanity....