Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Nuclear History”
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August 6: The World That Ends, the World That Begins
August 6 has a gift for endings that contain beginnings, and beginnings that contain, somewhere inside them, a kind of ending. The date does not repeat itself — no two of its significant moments share a century — but they share a structure: something that had always seemed permanent is suddenly, irreversibly gone, and something else steps into the space it occupied.
On August 6, 1806, Emperor Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.