HomePoliticsThe Moment The U.S. Became The Greatest Nation In the History of all Mankind Politics The Moment The U.S. Became The Greatest Nation In the History of all Mankind July 4, 2026 Rob Lauer In 1945, Nazi Germany and the Allies were in a race to build the first Nuclear Bomb. A race that would determine the fate of every man, woman and child on Earth for ever more. A weapon system so powerful that no army could stop it. A weapon system so powerful it would go onto detroy the Japanese Imperial War Machine. The Manhattan Project, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army successfully tested the first nuclear bomb. Up until then, approximately 111,600 Americans died fighting the Empire of Japan in the Pacific and Asian theaters during World War II. The Japanese had lost some 550,000. 1 million combined casualties were estimated to successfully invade Japan. It would take just two nuclear bombs dropped on their cities, killing an estimated 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to force Japan to surrender. And not one single American died during those bombings. Putting aside the moral questions surrounding the dropping of 2 nuclear bombs on civilians, its power was undeniable. The U.S. had obtained the ultimate military super weapon, capable of crushing any Army on Earth without risking any American losses. A power demonstrated to be so great that whoever obtained it could enslave every man woman and child on the planet, and could rule every nation on Earth forever. Every single nation on Earth at that time would have done just that, except the United States of America. In that brief moment in time we could have conquered the entire world, ruled for thousands of years and no one could have stopped us. The fact that we did not do that, makes the United States of America The Greatest Nation in the history of all mankind. Put aside the fact that the U.S. sacrificed more than 400,000 sons and fathers to save the world from Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. To all those folks who tear down our history for all the things we did, we are truly the Greatest people in the History of all mankind for what we didn’t do in 1945.
