Somebody invented the first locomotive. Then came the nuclear bomb. I guess that people were somewhat scared of newness both times. Mostly, it has been worse ever since. World War III was also before my day. But then fear, the protective emotion, played a reasonable part. So no cities were actually vaporized. But our side came out the victors with bombers so high-flying that they were already atom-propelled rocket ships of space. We had artificial satellites circling the Earth, and a fortress on