The Social Impact of the Atomic BombOne of the major social impacts of the atomic bomb is that the atomic bomb instills fear in people about nuclear explosion and war. Before the first atomic bomb was dropped, a typical war meant that people feared for casualties, physical pain, and the loss of loved ones. With the new age of the atomic bomb, every upcoming war has the potential to become a nuclear war, and a nuclear war brings with it a new kind of fear. This new fear is the fear of the end of the world and of humanity. When there is a weapon capable of leveling an entire city and killing 66,000 people and injuring 69,000 (atomicarhive.com) with long-term health effects, people will obviously be scared. People fear that there will be no future for humanity. If a nuclear war were to break out, half or an entire country could easily be destroyed to the point of becoming habitable due to radiation. From a psychological study at Stanford University conducted on young survivors of the Second World War, it emerged that almost half of the subjects interviewed believe that a nuclear war will lead to the complete annihilation of humanity (Koschin and Kabachenko 4). The study also found that “95% [of subjects] expressed serious concern about the danger of war, and 44% lived in fear, waiting for war” (Koschin and Kabachenko 2). Generations following the atomic bomb era will continue to fear that any war could become a world-ending nuclear war. The American government also sees the catastrophic potential of nuclear weapons and has begun to disarm its stockpile of nuclear weapons and ban future nuclear tests. Treaties such as the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the N Non-Proliferation Treaty...... middle of paper......! New areas of radiation contamination are also being found in other countries as other nuclear developing countries begin to catch on to atomic bomb technologies. Unfortunately for us, the effects of the atomic bomb will not disappear soon due to the long half-life of contaminants and nuclear developing countries. Works cited. “Rocky Flats Plant (USDOE).” Rocky Flats Plant (USDOE) | Region 8 | US EPA. np,. ndWeb. 3 May 2014. “Energy and radioactivity”. AtomicBombMuseum.org – Destructive effects.AtomicBombMuseum.org,. 2006. Network. 3 May 2014..“The effects of nuclear weapons”. Friends of the Earth: Anti-Nuclear Working Group. Friends of the Earth. np,. nd Web. May 3, 2014. http://www.motherearth.org/nuke/begin2.php#3/