Imagining World War III in 1945
As soon as the Second World War was over, military strategists started planning for the next one. Life magazine reported in its November 19, 1945 edition that the head of the United States Air Force, General Henry H. Arnold, had warned that technologies developed during the last war — atomic bombs, ballistic missile, long-range bombers — could make possible “the ghastliest of all wars.” The…