Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Streamline PicturesThe world changed forever on August 6, 1945. Toward the end of World War II, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima—the first time a nuclear bomb had ever been used in warfare. Three days later, America dropped a second atomic bomb on the nearby city of Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on September 2, and the war finally ended.The employment of nuclear warfare altered the fabric of society. The Cold War f