Many leading figures of the nuclear age grew ambivalent about aspects of this order.
In the nuclear age this has meant the ability to scatter defences around its western neighbour.
There, on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated, and the nuclear age exploded into existence.
"We were very lucky during the nuclear age, " chirps the puckish 60-year-old professor.
This is an elite that has, since the dawn of the nuclear age, been populated by by some of the highest IQs in America.
Then there is the Atomium, a giant-sized more-or-less model of an atom put up in 1958 as a tribute to the potential of the nuclear age.
Pakistan had entered the nuclear age and for a country with so little to celebrate the day became an orgy of patriotic fervour when everyday worries could be forgotten.
It all depends on whether Mr Hobsbawm can fit a topic into his grand preoccupation with the topic of how humanity got from the neolithic to the nuclear age.
As the number of nuclear weapons declines it may become more feasible to build defenses that can stop an attack, but for the time being conservatives and liberals alike are stuck with the paradoxes of surviving in the nuclear age.
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It has kept you, or someone you love, from having to fight and possibly die in the kind of global cataclysm using non-nuclear (or "conventional") weapons that engulfed our countrymen and untold millions of others twice in the last century, before the dawn of the nuclear age.
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As nuclear weapons age, their materials and components degrade in unpredictable ways.
For example, there are literally hundreds of nuclear plants of advanced age.
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Regardless of the success or failure of these ambitious anti-nuclear energy agendas, the age of atomic power is anything but over.
Other reports have found unexpectedly high rates of childhood cancer, often leukemia and typically diagnosed before age ten, near nuclear installations.
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Fears of a German invasion of New York were improbable, if not utterly fantastic, but in a pre-nuclear weapon, pre-smart weapon age, the size of a navy really mattered.
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For years I assumed my musical obsession with nuclear war was simply the product of coming of age under Reagan, the Cold War, and the television movie The Day After.
"In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Cancer incidence in children under age ten living near New York and New Jersey nuclear plants increased 4-5 years after increases in average Strontium-90 in baby teeth, and declined 4-5 years after Sr-90 averages dropped.
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Unfortunately for Kodak, not even weapons-grade nuclear power could save the company from its own irrelevance in the digital age.
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